Birth Control Prices Spike On Campus

The Indy Channel ^ | 03/23/07 | AP

[Abathar]

""It's a tremendous problem for our students because not every student has a platinum card," said Hugh Jessop, executive director of the health center at Indiana University. "

I fail to see a problem at all. Close your legs, problem solved.

[Wolfie]

No problem, as long as the cost of an abortion doesn't go up.

[Scourge of God]

The things the media will gin-up into scandal.

They could learn a lesson from Bill Clinton: go Oral, and no one gets pregnant.

[Pondman88]

Bummer....

[Dont Mention the War]

Screw them.

Oh, wait...

[JimRed]

Too high a cost for birth control really cuts into your beer money! < /sarc >

[rintense]

Wow. I paid $10 back in 1990 at MSU.

[Tanniker Smith]

There, he said, women are paying about $22 per month for prescriptions that cost $10 a few months ago.

So, what, four hours of minimum wage work will pay for a month of playtime?

[randog]

There, he said, women are paying about $22 per month for prescriptions that cost $10 a few months ago.

$22/month? When I was in college, a lot of women spent that much in a day on makeup.

[Abathar]

Not to be sexist, but she could ask her partner to chip in too. You want to play, you have to pay, kind of looks like the old "*ss, grass or gas, no one rides for free" motto from the sixties is going to make a comeback.

[Buck W.]

"Not to be sexist, but she could ask her partner to chip in too. "
True, and the more partners she has, the less she has to pay herself!

[freedomfiter2]

Let me see, college tuition goes up 8% per year and we're supposed to feel bad that oral contraception goes up $12 per month.

[cinives]

Geez - so order one less pizza a month. $12 is not the freaking end of the world.

[Abathar]

Geez, we are already buying their beer for them now, this will be getting expensive...

[Vigilanteman]

They got plenty of money to drink and diddle, but the taxpayer needs to pick up the tab for the consequences thereof.

[Izzy Dunne]

"Some of our students have two jobs, have children,"

Hmm, a college student with TWO jobs and children. How does she have TIME for any extra-curriculars?

[Andrew Byler]

These people are whining about $250 a year, or the alternative of abstinence.

[wireman]

Sex on campus???

Frankly, I'm shocked!!!

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

Since Medicaid is involved in this, I wonder what OTHER costs Medicaid incurs for "students".........I believe that all of Medicaid is means-tested on an income basis, so the extent of taxpayer paid health care for college students might just be huge......

[G Larry]

"Not to be sexist, but she could ask her partner to chip in too. "

You're assuming 1 partner per month.
Maybe a "tip jar" on the nightstand?