If you want to use BCP, fine with me. Pay for it your damn self. You want an abortion? Fine with me, pay for it your damn self. It's YOUR body, your responsibility. NOT MINE.

It's pretty funny how trusting you limo liberals are of the federal government and government in general when large governments have led to the holocaust, the vietnam war (vietnamese holocaust), two illegal wars in the last decade, the stripping of our civil liberties, and collusion with corporations. It may be cheaper to just subsidize birth control, but once again, you're allowing the government more power over your lives. Freedom is not risk free. Will people suffer? Yup.  But it's better than having a monolithic government breathing down your neck. Besides, if you limo liberals really cared about suffering, you would reduce the speed limit to 45 mph. You would save thousands of lives per year and prevent a lot of suffering. But you don't care about suffering. You care about YOUR suffering, but not others. For me, it's a matter of letting people take care of themselves like grown ups do. I know you liberals have trouble going poo poo without big government holding your hands, but I know you can do it.

People should stop giving the Federal government all its power and create small communities. If you want to subsidize BCP in your community, by all means do so, but do so with willing participants.

So only women's services are important and to hell with men right?

If people think that the govt shouldn't have sway over how private insurance companies conduct business, how about those companies have no sway over how the govt conducts it's business.  Big pharma and insurance have all the key policy makers in their pockets and we pay up the ass whether we have insurance or not.  Perhaps if our tax money actually went toward progressive needs and well-beingm rather than funding self-destructive military endeavors and paying interest for borrowing our own money from the fed, coverage wouldn't be such an issue.

Good, do you realize how many people in this country have health insurance and prescription plans that don't cover BC with a copay even? Just got over my 3rd plan that covered everything under the sun with a copay but birth control. Too bad big insurance can't hide behind the "ethics" card anymore now. $120+ a month for birth control when you have insurance is insane.

"It is also true that insurance companies commonly will only pay for
services that are "medically necessary". While some may argue about
whether Viagra or Cialis are medically necessary, erectile dysfunction
is, by definition, a condition where a normal biological function is not
working properly. Ovulation, on the other hand, is totally natural. Not
a dysfunction at all."

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We are now well past the point of constant natural breeding. One could also argue humans were designed to live less than 40 years in nature, so ED medication for older men is not natural.

"open for business" 

Didn't they say starting Aug 2012?

Women
should really just stay home and do the dishes, cooking, laundry and other
cleaning and they will be too tired to need this service that will have to be
paid for by us liberals

Worst troll fail ever. 

Women
should really just stay home and do the dishes, cooking, laundry, mending and other
cleaning and they will be too tired to need this service that will have to be
paid for by us liberals

"Everybody wishes to live at the expense of the state, but they forget
that the state lives at the expense of everybody. The state is the great
fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody
else." Frédéric Bastiat

Don't be fooled, this isn't going to help anyone.  This whole plan is only beneficially to woman who have health insurance. 

The current copay for birth control pills is about $9/month.  Are you going to try to tell me that a women with health insurance is going to risk having an unplanned baby for $9 month? If so, they are stupid and irresponsible and there's no cure for that. 

Some of you are going to write "$9 is a lot to some people" and my response is, "no it's not.  It's a little over an hour of work at minimum wage."

Grow up.  Take some responsibility for you life. 

Oh, and the insurance companies are just going to increase premiums for the "free" stuff they are giving out. 

You must have good insurance. I just got off my third insurance plan that didn't allow birth control to be covered by the prescription plan. Of course, they covered Viagra though. I'm glad I won't be paying $75 - $150 a month anymore because my insurance company wants to pull the ethics card. 

Why don't you pick a company that DOES cover birth control?

You know you don't have to use the insurance offered through your job, right?   But, but, but I'll have to pay more.  Well, no shit. When did you get the idea that health care is free?

You're cute in how you assume everyone is lucky enough to work for a company that provides health insurance. Been paying 100% out of pocket for my own health insurance for 3 years now - we don't all have the privileges you do to have good health insurance covered by an employer like you, you know. 

People also choose insurance for reasons other than birth control. I have a 0 deductible plan but no coverage for birth control. You balance. Others don't have the ability to get covered because of preexisting conditions or other riders. When did you get the idea that health insurance is only for those with $450+ a person a month to pay for it + deductibles + copays? 

You pay $5400/year on health insurance?  Wow, you must have cancer or something.  How about getting a plan with $1000 deductible?

And if you really needed it, you'd be on SSI. 

$14 is average, and even that varies wildly based on a woman's compatibility with given birth controls (the only one my friend can take without severe reactions costs her $50/month, and there's no generic on the market for another two years). As always, the big picture is more complicated than your reductive claims.

Are you really arguing over $5?

http://consumerist.com/2007/09...

And if "your friend" can't afford the $50/month for non-generics, I'd suggest she go to Planned Parenthood.  They'll give her a shit ton of condoms - for free.