free_me wrote:"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
Seriously, but apparently it's OK for insurers to pay for dick pills?
Sure. Since when is medical insurance not supposed to pay for making the insured's body work properly? Birth control is intended to make it not work properly, so why would you expect insurance to pay for it?
Stepping out on a limb here; past a certain age, a man's dick isn't supposed to work and it's pure vanity that demands The Blue Pill.
Past a certain age, a woman's ability to conceive "naturally" is compromised too, so by your logic, insurers should pay for IVF and fertility drugs?
free_me wrote:"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
Seriously, but apparently it's OK for insurers to pay for dick pills?
Sure. Since when is medical insurance not supposed to pay for making the insured's body work properly? Birth control is intended to make it not work properly, so why would you expect insurance to pay for it?
By that logic, pain meds shouldn't be covered either.
An insurance company should be able to provide whatever coverage they want, so long as it's in the contract in black and white. If they want to pay for birth control then fine. If they don't then people will have to look elsewhere for coverage, including their own wallet if it comes to that. I am not going to slut shame Fluke or anyone else, but I will say that if they want to engage in certain behaviors that cause them to desire a rather hefty amount of birth control that is their problem and no one elses. No moral judgement, just the idea that they are responsible for their own bodies and no one else. Lastly I should bring up that there are some cases where birth control may actually be more about regulating a females, er, system than preventing any pregnancy. In this case I think it could and should be considered a medical necessity, but again what constitutes a medical necessity is up to the insurance company and doctors.
I'd much rather a few of my tax dollars be spent on birth control for some "under-privileged" cunt, than a whole bunch of it spent feeding and housing her bastard until age 16-18; when often the county sheriff gets to take over housing & feeding the bastard.
"Life is a bitch. Shit happens. Adapt, improvise, and overcome. Acknowledge it, and move on."
"I want the government and my employer to stay out of my uterus; I also want the government and my employer to pay for birth control." In a somewhat perfect world ladies, you wouldn't be able to have it both ways.
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Termite wrote:I'd much rather a few of my tax dollars be spent on birth control for some "under-privileged" cunt, than a whole bunch of it spent feeding and housing her bastard until age 16-18; when often the county sheriff gets to take over housing & feeding the bastard.
Because someone totally irresponsible about getting an education, providing for their own food and shelter, and how frequently and promiscuously she sleeps around with multiple others, will be scrupulously circumspect about using birth control products every day.
If, on the other hand, a condition of receiving any form of welfare payments was presenting yourself at the window monthly to verify that Captain Norplant was still on the case every month, I could see subsidizing that.
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Termite wrote:I'd much rather a few of my tax dollars be spent on birth control for some "under-privileged" cunt, than a whole bunch of it spent feeding and housing her bastard until age 16-18; when often the county sheriff gets to take over housing & feeding the bastard.
