Insurers must cover birth control with no copays (Welcome to Communism)

yahoo ^ | 8/1/2011 | ap

[dila813]

Is this really what insurance is for? Covering day to day consumables?

[oh8eleven]

Try getting an annual physical if you are on MEDICARE ....
How so? My parents and my in-laws were on Medicare for up to 17 years and never had a problem.

[Adder]

I’m with ya.

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[Mike Darancette]

Health insurance plans must cover birth control as preventive care for women, with no copays, the Obama administration said Monday in a decision with far-reaching implications for health care as well as social mores.

Is men's birth control covered without co-pay?

[Mike Darancette]

Doesn’t mean that the insurance company would cover the good stuff. Medicaid sure doesn’t.

[windcliff]

I agree.

[newzjunkey]

Evidently.

Paying for people who refuse to keep their pants up.

I see all these special bennies for women. What will men get with no copay?

[Secret Agent Man]

Obama playing the uterus card.

I think his favorite game is Divide and Conquer. Or Red Tide.

[dila813]

Well, at least I can hope they put this under mental healthcare coverage where it belongs.

[narses]

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[Salvation]

Now they will be co-horts in sin? The killing of children?

[Salvation]

Cap the spending and cut this program.

[olivia3boys]

This is interesting—my generic bc pill is $10/mo copay; if it is to be now “free,” am I free to now choose “Seasoneque” instead, which is a much more expensive bc pill?

[steve86]

screening for the virus that causes cervical cancer

Not 30 minutes ago a clinic tried to give our girl Gardisil. I told them to jam it back up their hypodermic needle. I'm basically on probation-trespass with that clinic already because of the last run-in about swine-flu vaccine, so maybe they will blacklist me now.

[xzins]

If birth control is health care, then so are haircuts.

They are both by choice, they don’t involve any illness, and they both result from the body acting exactly as it’s supposed to.

[silverleaf]

MEDICARE now- you get ONE through physical upon entry to the progarm... very limited “wellness checks” thereafter

As my husband’s doctor said at his recent- and last -insurance covered annual physical: “WELCOME TO MEDICARE”

So we will still do annual physicals. Just have to go pay cash... until the govt tells docs they aren’t allowed to give physicals to seniors, even for cash- that day will come

Kinda cynical eh? No physicals means less tests for conditions they discover, govt “saves money”

it also means you probably won’t have something detected until you have symptoms- more people will die sooner, as is our civic duty

[oh8eleven]

MEDICARE now- you get ONE through physical upon entry to the progarm
I don't want to beat this to death but ... what do they check during a thorough physical, and how is that different from a not-thorough one?
Personally, a think a comprehensive blood test once a year is more important.

[SQUID]

Welcome to Eugenics and population control.

[silverleaf]

ask your own doctor

[oh8eleven]

Yeah, just as I thought ... blowin’ smoke.