Sounds good on its surface. What’s in it for Cruz is my question.

cruiz is doing insurance lobbys work.

If a Catholic pharmacist wanted to not provide birth control pills, he or she could simply refuse to carry them, and the local supermarket or even a convenience store could stock OTC pills to sell. The pharmacist would be off the hook.

That's what I think Cruz is going for.

I certainly agree that it should be over-the-counter.

Now if we can pair that with comprehensive, fact-based sex education for our youth, we might actually get somewhere.

throw the entire burden of cost back onto the woman? Will low income women be able to afford this?

Birth control pills are not like asprin, there is no one-size-fits-all version. Birth control pills have many side effects and need to be monitored, along with other medications a woman may be taking. Sometimes it's necessary for health reasons to either switch dosage or go to anotehr brand of the pills.

This is a bad idea on all fronts. A better idea would be making birth control FREE but still dispensed unders a doctors supervision.

if sold over the counter?

I used to take Protonix, which I got from a Canadian pharmacy for about a dollar a pill. Then, with my doctor's approval, I switched over to Nexium, which was available OTC. That cut my cost in half.

Now, there is a generic form of the underlying drug in Nexium, and it is even cheaper. Would birth control pills, which have been around in some form or another for about sixty years be cheaper if they were not handled by pharmacists?

I also think it’s an underhanded way to get the contraception requirement out of the ACA. Which means that LARCs (IUD, etc) and tubals will no longer be required to be covered by insurance at all (let alone “free”).

He is trying to be sneaky about something. Totally out of character.

but I'm sure AOC would be well aware of that. Watch this space I guess.

hormonal-based birth control pills should have some medical oversight. IUDs, in my experience the easiest form to use, do need to be inserted, so again some medical oversight is needed.

"Day after" treatments such as RU486 should be available as well.

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