In 1946, my grandmother welcomed a healthy son into this world - with joy. In 1950, she welcomed a healthy daughter - my aunt - into this world. In 1953, my grandmother fell pregnant with my mother. She cried. Pregnancy was hard on her; she did not have the money to feed three children. In 1955, my grandmother fell pregnant again. In 1957, once again. All in all, she had five children. She celebrated the first two, she cried and did her best to feed them all after she had five.
She loved her children, and her grandchildren; but she did not want the last three. They all had a harder life because there were so many. Had she been able to access birth control, she would have.
She told the story of her tears to all of us - so we would learn from her hardship. Every child loved, every child wanted.
Today, President Barack Obama signed an executive order that will help women in America access birth control. Insurers must cover birth control as preventative medicine, with no co-pay. For middle class women in this country, this is huge. As the middle class becomes more and more squeezed, they are cutting every expense possible. For many women, the expenditure of $20 a month for birth control can take $20 out of their already squeezed food budget. Poor women have subsidized access to birth control; rich women can afford it. Those in the middle - the doughnut hole - can now access birth control at no cost through the insurance plan that they pay an average of $12,000 a year for.
Critics say that others holding the same insurance plan will ultimately pay the cost, but I beg to differ. I gave birth to a child last year, and it cost our insurance plan $20,000. Given these numbers, it would only take 1 pregnancy prevented each month out of 1,000 fully paid prescriptions to recoup the $20 co-pay cost the insurer now covers.
The President got this one right.
She loved her children, and her grandchildren; but she did not want the last three. They all had a harder life because there were so many. Had she been able to access birth control, she would have.
She told the story of her tears to all of us - so we would learn from her hardship. Every child loved, every child wanted.
Today, President Barack Obama signed an executive order that will help women in America access birth control. Insurers must cover birth control as preventative medicine, with no co-pay. For middle class women in this country, this is huge. As the middle class becomes more and more squeezed, they are cutting every expense possible. For many women, the expenditure of $20 a month for birth control can take $20 out of their already squeezed food budget. Poor women have subsidized access to birth control; rich women can afford it. Those in the middle - the doughnut hole - can now access birth control at no cost through the insurance plan that they pay an average of $12,000 a year for.
Critics say that others holding the same insurance plan will ultimately pay the cost, but I beg to differ. I gave birth to a child last year, and it cost our insurance plan $20,000. Given these numbers, it would only take 1 pregnancy prevented each month out of 1,000 fully paid prescriptions to recoup the $20 co-pay cost the insurer now covers.
The President got this one right.
I think it's a big deal. It's an unfunded government mandat which has been found illegal in many occasions.
Also if they don't have to pay a copayment on birth control should my wife have to pay a copayment when she gets her blood pressure medicine, should I have had to pay when I had Prostate Surgery or radiation treatments for prostate cancer.
Also who looses the copay? The doctor? The insurance company or the pharmacy.
Fortunately this issue is already the subject of 36 court cases. It will Shirley be thrown out due to the First Amendment which keeps laws restricting the free excercise of religion. The Courts hav only thrown out two Executive orders. One because the President doesn't have the ability to pass any law Congress can't pass due to Constitutional concerns.
It's only going to hurt a little while. The big hurt will come if Inama is reelected and adds two or more extreme left Supreme Court Justices.
On the contrary...that is why they sell it...on morale grounds.
Yeah, this is a big deal.
It's about damn time. They've been covering Viagra for years, and as a side note I don't recall hearing any stories about pharmacists refusing to sell it on morale grounds.