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By her own testimony it "is technically covered".
But for her "friend and 20% of the women in her situation, she never got the insurance company to cover her prescription".
By her own testimony...it is.
By her own testimony it "is technically covered".
But for her "friend and 20% of the women in her situation, she never got the insurance company to cover her prescription".
Transcript of testimony by Sandra FlukeHer prescription is technically covered by Georgetown’s insurance because it’s not intended to prevent pregnancy.
“Unfortunately, under many religious institutions and insurance plans, it wouldn’t be. There would be no exception for other medical needs. And under Sen. Blunt’s amendment, Sen. Rubio’s bill or Rep. Fortenberry’s bill there’s no requirement that such an exception be made for these medical needs.
“When this exception does exist, these exceptions don’t accomplish their well-intended goals because when you let university administrators or other employers rather than women and their doctors dictate whose medical needs are legitimate and whose are not, women’s health takes a back seat to a bureaucracy focused on policing her body.
“In 65% of the cases at our school, our female students were interrogated by insurance representatives and university medical staff about why they needed prescription and whether they were lying about their symptoms.
“For my friend and 20% of the women in her situation, she never got the insurance company to cover her prescription. Despite verifications of her illness from her doctor, her claim was denied repeatedly on the assumption that she really wanted birth control to prevent pregnancy.
She’s gay. So clearly polycystic ovarian syndrome was a much more urgent concern than accidental pregnancy for her.