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So easy!

I can only imagine how bizarre this whole episode looks to non-American Westerners. Debates on whether birth control should be covered? Come on. This is such a no-brainer.

Is 2+2 now moving beyond the pyramid shaped rating system and on to an Eiffel Tower shape? Pretty sure you just said 80% of women are 1-3s.

Problem: Insurance company doesn't pay for genuine medical use of drug.
Solution: Make them pay for every use of drug.

It's really hard to give an accurate rating without seeing her elbows.

Is that code for Ron Paul?

That's what Obama did. Unfortunately people like Rush and the republicans tried to stop him. Isn't that a shame?

FYP, and yes, that does seem like a pretty good solution.

dude bro in what world is she higher than a 3? not a world I want to live in.

This whole debate is such bull****. Ortho Tri-Cyclen is $9 at Walmart. A box of condoms is $10.

Suck the $9 up you sluts. Wrap your dick up you dicks.

There. Gender neutral. Lets be ****ing responsible. Male and female. Not too hard. Hell pull out in addition to the condoms and the birth control.

$19 dollars and pull it out. Let's go go go go go go.

[ ] The above post solves the entirety of the debate.

This debate is so stupid. Santorum is a **** head. Catholic church is dumb. Normal people like to have sex. Why are we making mountains out of molehills.

Also, this thread is not complete without this gif:

Why is $9 dollars a month a burden? Why is a box of condoms a burden? Why is there no responsibility in this country? I like to have sex with my girlfriend. She doesn't like birth control. I buy condoms. I don't testify to Congress that this is terrible and I am burdened because of this. It is life. It is such a insignificant amount of money. And if $9 is a significant then obviously one isn't ready to have sex.

On the topic.

Anything that "covers" birth control IS NOT INSURANCE.

And adding it to health plans just spreads out the cost.

I could see it being covered as a way of forcing men to pay half the cost.

Problem is, it also forces people who don't want or need birth control to bear the cost, and that's not really fair.

If it's trivial amount of money, then there should be no prob with insurance companies picking up the tab.


It's not fair that I had to pay car insurance last month even though I didn't get into an accident!

It's about more than the contraception angle. It's an integral medicine in the lives of many women out side of just the contraceptive function. You should look more into if you don't understand what those functions are.

First, I think this thread title should be chanced to "Are Rushes allegations true", or something less offensive.

Second, if you think someone who writes a summation on the cost of contraceptives to the typical college student and tries to present the findings to congress is significant reason to assert rushes allegations, you're a ******.

Third, no matter how much sex you have, the cost of birth control is the same because you use contraceptives whether you're having sex every day, every week, or every month.

The world outside college bars. Go look around a WalMart or something.

This world using anything remotely resembling a bell curve.

I am a goddamn pharmacist. I know what it does and how it works. The whole 'woah is me' is just what is annoying. It's not expensive. Get over it. Some employers don't want to cover it for whatever reason. Lots of employers don't cover Viagra (in fact less cover Viagra than birth control, only the goddamn Catholic Church covers Viagra and not birth control). No employers cover Rogaine, but you better believe if I go bald I'll be buying that, and I'm not screaming discrimination. Life is unfair. I am a pro-choice, pro-gay marriage libertarian. I just don't ****ing care if your birth control isn't covered.

Don't be a moron. We all pay the cost for things we don't want or need, insurance is coverage of things that generally affect a small portion of the population in certain events. Assuming the rarity happens and you need insurance in case a unlikely accident befalls you, you'll want to have other people help you out through the use of insurance.

Also, this isn't adding birth control coverage to insurance. This is about removing birth control coverage from insurance. 99% of sexually active women use birth control. 61% of all women from age 15-45 are currently using some form of birth control. This is not a small issue. This is not an issue for some small subset of the population.

In this world, a majority of people want insurance to cover contraception, so it does. That's how the world works, a few idiots rambling nonsense about paying for **** they don't understand isn't cause to reexamine something that a vast majority of us have already moved past.

Except that is never never ever what happens. The cost gets passed on and with an extra profit bump for the "insurer". If everyone needed it, they'd just be paying $12 to get $9 back.

1. I agree.

2. Something that's actually insurance isn't comparable.