Never fear, free is a must for everyone. Coverage of prescription drugs used to mean what it said. Insurance covered prescription medication with varying levels of co-payments.
Insurance was not intended to pay for over the counter items where spending was totally in the control of the individual. Certain OTC medications were eligible for spending accounts, etc.
Under the Affordable Care Act, most private insurance plans are required to cover FDA-approved methods of contraception. But insurers can require a prescription in some cases, explained Victoria Nichols, MPH, project director for Free the Pillopens in a new tab or window.
“Even as we celebrate today, we must ensure that over-the-counter birth control pills are equitably accessible to all,” Nichols said, including people of color, who research shows face disproportionate barriers to obtaining birth control.
“This means that OTC birth control pills must be priced affordably and fully covered by insurance,” she said, adding that Free the Pill will work with policymakers to help drive solutions to ensure coverage without a prescription across public and private plans.
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If they are priced affordably, why do they have to be fully covered by insurance?
Does she really mean “people of color,” or is that better propaganda than saying poor people. Or, do middle class people of color have barriers to birth control?
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I have mixed emotions on this topic. I am always against “free” because someone pays.
But I am having trouble understanding the real purpose behind the reasoning. Is it to prevent more unwanted children? Prevent abortions? Help the poor women get out of poverty? Or due to our moral decay prevent more children born out of wedlock? Will black, poor people take advantage of this or will it be used mostly by white middle class women who need to work to support the family that they already have? Feel free to swap any combination of race and class status in that last statement, they all work. Apparently, there is an effort to reduce the world population, is this part of it? You can get free condoms online which is the second best way to prevent STDs, the first is saying “no”. Condoms might actually be cheaper than pills so why isn’t that being pushed as a less costly option?
If I thought that there was proof that providing free birth control would actually address one of these issue, I might be for free birth control. But as long as saying “no” is still free, I don’t see the point.
On the flip side, why is Viagra covered under many plans?
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