NOBODY'S PAYING FOR ****ING SANDRA ****ING FLUKES ****ING CONTRACEPTION...
HOLY JESUS.
There's nothing wrong with mandating Medical Insurance Companies to pay for contraception the same way they would pay for any other basic drugs that are nessecary for people to have, some of these HMO's cover Viagra for gods sake, so why not contraceptive pills?
Doing such a thing, expanding access to contraceptives is a massive net benefit to the economy as it reduces unwanted pregnancies, reduces the need for abortions which is a net positive for the medical insurance companies obviously abortion procedures cost more than a measly pill.
This whole idea that everyone pays for Sandra Flukes Contraceptives is such a fallacy it's unbelievable.
Nobody? She gets it free... completely free... and no one pays for it?
Brave New World here we come!!!
Back here in reality, those things require a significant amount of effort to create, get approved, produce, market, sell off, etc.... In that process there's a host of people whose time needs to be compensated, energy which gets expended, property which is used, capital which is fronted, etc.
Question... who is going to compensate for them... because she isn't...
You say requiring health insurance companies to pay... Do you believe it's the insurance companies that end up paying for them? The health insurance companies get their capital from the policy holders (paying customers). When they have some paying customers and have to provide free services to those who aren't paying customers, they don't just start throwing away profit margins, they raise the premiums on all of the policy holders collectively... and thus, the paying customers pay more, to cover the costs of those who aren't paying. Additionally, the health insurance companies say, hey, we are doing this at your government issued mandate, to cover health insurance for someone who is not paying into our plan, so we shouldn't have to pay for this, you must subsidize it... Then the tax payers end up paying for it...
The fact that you think this isn't the case is quite ridiculous...
I agree with you, it's ridiculous that they'd cover Viagra as well... They shouldn't... It should only be for essential medications... not optional medications... Those should be treated the same way as elective surgery... You chose to have it, you pay for it...
You rightly said the key term of "basic drugs that are nessecary for people to have"...
People aren't required to have Birth Control pills... theyre optional medications, which are paid for out of pocket, just as any over the counter drug...
There is absolutely no disease for which Birth Control pills is a proven antidote... There are vague correlations with the reduction of cysts based off of birth control pills, but there's no proof that this was the sole cause of the reduction... Besides, the number of people that this happens for is so minute, it's not worth increasing coverage for all, and the cost of that coverage... especially given that the cost of the pills themselves is low enough where most people can afford them...
This is not about necessity, it's about adding perks and free coverages onto plans which already have skyrocketing costs that are crippling the entire industry...
That's more towards the point... this is yet another situation where people are looking for the government to provide something that 1) people lived for centuries without, and had no problem with it, and 2) that they could easily work to provide for themselves without taking money from other taxpayers...
We are spending way too much already... and people have given up the belief that they should have to earn/provide for what they use in life, and that they should have to budget their money wisely to cover for any expenses they personally incur...
Also, this notion that the lack of birth control pills increases the amount of abortions is ridiculous as well... First off, we shouldn't be covering abortions, unless it becomes necessary to protect the health of the mother (and even still pre-term birth seems the more logical option)... This, is also comprises an elective surgery... Secondly, if they go out and become actively involved sexually, if they hadn't been using birth control and get pregnant this is on them, it's their own actions which caused this to take place, no one should be covering that for them... it's a form of negligence, and most insurance companies do not pay for negligent behaviors... There's also other forms of birth control which aren't birth control pills. There's still the only true 100% effective method, abstinence, which comes free of cost. Then there are condoms (which so many people offer up free these days, no doubt on tax payer money, and that shouldn't happen, but they're much cheaper than pills), IUDs & diaphragms (which are cheaper, by requiring a 1-time payment and custom fitting, but not a long-term), etc. so this isn't even the most cost-efficient form of birth control.
Still the large issue here is the general sense of entitlement... of expecting that there's some exception to your case that the government should cover for...
This has driven us further from self-reliance, and the idea that we need to be able to provide for something before we can do it... That's never going to happen if we continually reward people for lack of effort of self-reliance...
In Sandra Fluke's case... all the poor girl did was get into some elite private college (Georgetown)... She shouldn't have to pay for anything, then... Since she's so burdened by getting a major advantage on everyone else in the workplace... Pffff what are we thinking... of course all those people who couldn't afford to go to private colleges, and commute to local state schools while working to pay their bills should have to pay taxes in order to support her birth control pills... :roll:
Then again... since Sandra Fluke is a student, she's likely just on her daddy's plan, and he's paying for it... which in that case... why isn't it his responsibility to kick down to cover her birth control pills?
Oh that's right, it's because she's the one who wants them, would benefit from using them... SO SHE'S THE ONE WHO SHOULD BE COVERING THE COST OF THEM!!!