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brewens

(13,601 posts)
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 01:36 AM Jul 2020

Insurance companies want to include free birth control in policies for women don't they?

I wouldn't be surprised if they charged more for policies that exclude that. It seems to me there is an easy solution. Offer a special free birth control card to all policy holders. They just have to go to the web site or call to get it.

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Insurance companies want to include free birth control in policies for women don't they? (Original Post) brewens Jul 2020 OP
Good thought. & Think like an Insurance CEO... Captain Zero Jul 2020 #1
Ins co.s want to sell pills... Wounded Bear Jul 2020 #2
Birth control isn't just pills MoonlitKnight Jul 2020 #4
Understood and agreed... Wounded Bear Jul 2020 #6
Where did you get that lovely idea? Women have always been forced to pay out of pocket... Hekate Jul 2020 #3
Really its a lot more expensive to pay for pregnancy marlakay Jul 2020 #5
I said this yesterday, but I'm all for not giving women more reasons not to have sex with me Victor_c3 Jul 2020 #7

Captain Zero

(6,818 posts)
1. Good thought. & Think like an Insurance CEO...
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 01:40 AM
Jul 2020

Would you rather pay for a woman's birth control for 9 months or an unwanted pregnancy and ob/gyn charges for 9 months?
Which one is better for the insurance companies bottom line, if you think like a CEO??

MoonlitKnight

(1,584 posts)
4. Birth control isn't just pills
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 01:50 AM
Jul 2020

IUD, tubal ligation, Norplant, etc.

And this is where the “pro life” people show their true colors. It’s not just abortion they oppose. Many oppose basic birth control.

Wounded Bear

(58,674 posts)
6. Understood and agreed...
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 10:30 AM
Jul 2020

Just saying, Ins co's are all about the money. No morality or religious BS involved with their operations.

Not a lot of real morality in the "pro life" a-holes either. A lot of false religiosity, mmostly designed to control people's sex lives, motsly women's sex lives. When the modern movement started back in the 50's and 60's women weren't supposed to enjoy sex, but only endure it to please their husbands and "be fruitful and multiply."

So, yeah, I get it. If it was really about "the children" they wouldn't oppose pre-natal care, childcare, or education. But they do.

Hekate

(90,737 posts)
3. Where did you get that lovely idea? Women have always been forced to pay out of pocket...
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 01:50 AM
Jul 2020

...for every kind of birth control. Women have always had to pay more for insurance itself than men.

It was Obamacare (ACA) that tried to put an end to that injustice, and someday America might join the rest of the world in making it so.

Granny Hekate




marlakay

(11,479 posts)
5. Really its a lot more expensive to pay for pregnancy
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 01:52 AM
Jul 2020

Possibly C section, and lots of doctor visits, hospital stay.

Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)
7. I said this yesterday, but I'm all for not giving women more reasons not to have sex with me
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 10:35 AM
Jul 2020

I mean they give men viagra, might as well give women birth control. Win-win as far as I’m concerned.

Some issues warrant thinking with your penis first.

Everybody gets to have more sex!

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