Insurers - HMOs (not all but many) covered BC but traditional insurance plans didn't. Discrimination against women! Insurers cover male impotence drugs but not BC for women. Discrimination against women!
I've encountered this as an RN working in insurance for 20+ years. Every time I encountered it I would try to explain what insurance is for. So I'll give you that synopsis here.
In physiology there is something called homeostasis which essentially means functioning within normal health. Health insurance is supposed to get a person back to homeostasis. When something causes the person to be unhealthy such as an acute appendix, to return to homeostasis usually involves an appendectomy. For males, it is part of the normal functioning of the human body for him to achieve an erection. So when for a physiological reason he cannot and drugs became available to counter that loss of function insurers covered them.
For women, ovulation followed by menstruation is the normal homeostasis process. BC interrupts that process so to cover BC it would be an instance of insurers covering something that was designed to interfere with normal functioning. But women didn't care because in today's society you have strength in being able to cry victim and get others to give you something for nothing. That is where we are today. Hope that clears it up for you. :)
Thank You Dad was my hero!
Finally, someone took such a simple question seriously!
Yet I have always argued erections are for fun, not for life. There is no need to have an erection. Only a want. Bogus that sexual dysfunction counts as a “medical” issue that warrants someone else paying.
I’d say the same if they’d actually have serious drugs for women’s problems (and we have them more), but it think this is all about allowing sex, sex, sex to keep the Idiocracy going.
Good post. And there is also the fact that erectile dysfunction medication and birth control pills are meant for opposite conditions, so why are they even compared in the first place??
:)