Make birth control available without a prescription and insurance plans won't have to cover it. Problem solved. The day after pill is already available over the counter and contains the same hormones as the mini-pill.
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That would work in theory, but the underlying problem is that both options are still prohibitively expensive for poor women, exactly the sort of demographic that has to rely on insurance paying for birth control in the first place.
It's pretty obvious that avarice-centric politicians do not care if poor women can afford birth control on their own dime, the real agenda is to force poor women to have as many children as possible as a boon to wage attrition, the more uneducated poor children there are, the more exploitable corporate slaves and cannon fodder for the endless war toy industry.
I heard a recent expert say that if birth control is eliminated as an insurance benefit, it would force women, especially poor women to pay anywhere from $600-$1200 a year just for birth control and every state is currently ramming through ballot initiatives to essentially make any form of birth control illegal, these are so extreme that it wouldn't surprise me if they decided to make rubbers illegal as well, maybe even masturbation will be illegal.
How in the heck are they going to enforce masturbation prohibition....by hiring voyeurs as chicken choking interceptors......
All this from the same detached individuals that do not want big government interfering with "their" lives, but other people's lives, well apparently that's a different story, those people need a control freak government keeping their every waking second human behavior in check for religiously-correct purposes.
Andy F
I don't know enough about birth control pills to say whether this is a good idea or not.
Condoms obviously are available without presciptions, but I'm not sure how much of a risk women run from ingesting the progesterone and estrogen in B/C pills - if that's what they're still using.
What about another solution to this mess? Take the financing for health care insurance away from private sector employers -- all private sector employers. Have health insurance provided through a "single payer" system, possibly by expanding the existing Medicare system for older Americans to cover everyone in the country?
If our political leaders would do that, Catholic and evangelical Protestant hospitals and schools wouldn't have to be involved in paying for health care insurance, period. Neither would synagogues, mosques, or atheistic organizations like the Center for Free Inquiry. Let the government either provide health care insurance itself, or pay for private companies to provide it through a "single payer plan." Administered without any religious, racial, or cultural bias, to everybody.
-- democratic socialist