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Birth control is not just about sex. Let me repeat, birth control is not just about sex, or the prevention of pregnancy.
Hormonal birth control is often taken by women as part of their health care routine, to regulate and mitigate the sometimes debilitating pain and other significant issues that come with menstruating every month.
You cannot assume that birth control is taken purely for the prevention of pregnancy.
There are plenty of women who do not have sex that are on BC, and plenty of married women that are on BC in order to control menstrual discomfort, and by discomfort I mean not being able to get out of bed or leave the house for 3 or so days a week. Some women have periods twice or more a month. The decision to take BC goes beyond one's desire for "pleasure".
They should not have to justify why they need birth control. Sometimes it's more complicated than going into the 7/11 for a pack of condoms.
why is it called birth control! if it is not birth control. why not have king Obama proclaim a different name for the same drug. to dispense to women that need it for something else!!
why is it called birth control! if it is not birth control. why not have king Obama proclaim a different name for the same drug. to dispense to women that need it for something else!!
But Viagra gets covered? It's anyone else's responsibiltity or problem if a guy can't get it up? I'll assume you agree with me on this. Maybe a bit of penile dysfunction will make him humble.
sorry dud Viagra should not be require coverage. not ban. iether!!!
birth control is not a right!, buy your own!! you buy your own car, your gas, your clothing, stop being lazy get a job and pay for your own pleasures!!
Exactly, pay for your own pleasures and pay for your own responsibility when stupid enough to have chidlren you can't afford.
Gysmo, yes sometimes it's not just to prevent pregnancy and I don't care buy your own. If people have insurance then pay the co-pay like everyone else if no insurance tought s hi t I had to pay my way why shouldn't everyone else.
Last edited by Lolipopbubbles; 02-16-2012 at 05:13 AM..
How is it a war on women? It about being Pro-Choice and having the choice to decide whether or not to provide contraception. I would think you liberal lefties would support Pro-Choice laws.
The four women that live with me feel that if a women wants to have sex she should pay for her own protection.
It's not healthecare people its a fun fun pill.
How many times does it need to be repeated for the penis holders out there that HORMONAL BIRTH CONTROL is not always about preventing pregnancy?!!?!?!?!?
It can prevent CANCERS, stop excessive bleeding, as well as other issues. The four women in yourr house SHOULD know that!
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Originally Posted by Bulldogdad
Yes go find another place to work. Like I stated before, I have employees that stay with me for a lower wage than at other companies just because of the insurance coverage I provide, that and I'm an great person if I do say so myself.
Yeah, cause finding work in this economy is soooooo easy.
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Originally Posted by Bulldogdad
It is free and readily available.
You dont' understand because of the position of entitlement in which you view this issue.
What position of entitlement? The position that I want to be able to not bleed for 270+ days a year, and what to be a productive member of the workforce, and by taking BC pills that could be a possibility? Silly me, I forgot that is me being "entitled" again right?
Can you say the same about insulin or high blood pressure meds?
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Originally Posted by workingclasshero
oh please
Minestrin 1/20 Birth Control 28 day 1/0.02mg 3 Packs(3 months).......$69.50(23.3/month)
Micronor Discreet 28 day 0.35mg 3 Packs (3 months)......................$57.00(19/month)
YAZ Birth Control 28 day 3mg/20mcg 6 Packs (6 months)................$176.00(29.33/month)
Ortho Cept 28 day 0.15/0.03mg 6 Packs(6 months).........................$125.50(20.83/month)
Ortho Tri Cyclen Lo 28 day noDose 3 Packs(3 months).....................$54.00(18/month)
Ethinyl estradiol/norgestimate noDose 6 Packs(6 months).................$93.00(15/month)
all for less than 30/month (15-30 a month)...less than a dollar a day...less than the cost of a daily Starbucks coffee
Not every woman can take BC pills, some have to have a low dose, or an alternative form of hormonal BC.
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Originally Posted by OICU812
Birth control is not health care for a healthy woman. Its a conscious decision taken by a woman who does not want to have a baby, while still engaging in the baby making process.
Again, pregnancy prevention is not the ONLY reason for a woman to take BC.
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Originally Posted by Lolipopbubbles
Exactly, pay for your own pleasures and pay for your own responsibility when stupid enough to have chidlren you can't afford.
Gysmo, yes sometimes it's not just to prevent pregnancy and I don't care buy your own. If people have insurance then pay the co-pay like everyone else if no insurance tought s hi t I had to pay my way why shouldn't everyone else.
Then people who have high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholosteral(sp), blocked arteries, cancer, AIDS, and any other health condition should have to foot the bill too by YOUR logic, since they caused their own problems, they should be forced to pay for their actions right?
Why is this even coming up when the economy is so damn bad? Why are the politicians fighting over BC like kids fighting over candy? Someone fill me in...
This proposed amendment is a 'Get Home Free" card for any employer providing health insurance. It will not take all business managers very long to create a reason to not pay for insurance that covers ANY expensive treatments as well as contraceptives. Eventually the only problem covered will be erectile dysfunction because that generally affects the executive age men. Reducing the competition for executive jobs is another important factor. This is a way of forcing women out of the executive workforce and imprisoning them in the house with children.
This is being considered because the Republicans cannot argue on the continuously improving economy so they bring up irrelevant social issues to keep the RWA’s energized.
NEWS FLASH: My function and purpose on Planet Earth is not to fund your life-style.
And to rub it in and add insult to injury, if you had real, true, actual, bona fide health insurance instead of faux Herr Göbbels fake-insurance, you could purchase a rider for contraceptives, and that is how it should be done.
I don't put a little rubber thingy on my John Thomas and I shouldn't have to be forced to pay higher health care costs just because others have this bizarre belief that everyone on Planet Earth is supposed to fund their life-style.
Oh, how these men loathe the idea of women having sex and being able to control reproduction (or not).
Chiropractic care is a rider in my health plan. Ordered medications are not, and that includes hormonal birth control. Oh, and an IUD has to be inserted by a doctor, and people would expect to pay a co-pay. I doubt anyone has an issue with a co-pay for BC pills, as they don't have an issue with a co-pay for an office visit or any other medication ordered. The issue is an employer's apparent "right" to exclude from coverage anything that corporation deems unacceptable- what if they don't believe in Pap smears? How about mammograms? How about colonoscopies? Gee, everyone has mentioned Viagra and Jehovah's with blood transfusions.
I am so weary of women's bodies being either an object of desire, one of distaste, one about "close your legs," and ignoring also the many many married women who use birth control.
I hate old sex-hating woman-hating men. Why don't they just go diddle someone else and get over it.
How low? Go to the right-to-life websites, they openly state they want all birth control banned, THAT is how low they would go. Thankfully the religous far right will not ever control this Nation.
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