Take your umbrella.

They're going to lurch into the 1970's if they're not careful.

I agree--make it OTC.

and if it's a prescription drug (as it SHOULD be for medical safety reasons) it's covered by medical insurance automatically, regardless of deductibles and copays (ie free).

It is available when a pharmacist is on duty and recommendations from the medical community are moving towards making daily dose contraceptives available OTC:


http://www.acog.org/About_ACOG/ACOG_Districts/District_II/Oral_Contraceptives_OTC

Sudafed and Prilosec are two examples.

Big Pharma knows how desperate women are to control their fertility and they will squeeze every last dime out of us. Just like they have been doing all along, all those decades when insurance refused to cover it.

I pay way more for my Allegra D now than I ever did when it was prescription only, and I need to take it 365 days a year. Due to debilitating cramps with my natural cycle (so severe I am unable to work or even get out of bed really if I'm not on the pill), there is a chance I may need to be on birth control pills until menopause except for any pregnancies that I have. If the cost goes up the way some other drugs have, I'd be spending a LOT more money just to be able to function.

Insurance doesn't pay for over-the-counter meds.

Jindal isn't being sensible. No, he's being sleazy. Making contraception OTC forces women to pay for it, even if they have insurance.

Fuck him.

He now realizes that accessible contraception will benefit Louisana's bottom line.

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Medicaid does cover contraception.

I've recently jumped through some paperwork hoops to get OCs for my daughter. She's on CHIP, which in Texas has the same policy with respect to the Pill as Medicaid... OCs are only covered if contraception is not their primary function. It wasn't enough that the prescription explicitly said they weren't for birth control and gave a diagnosis code for what was being treated: the doctor still had to call the insurance company.

Too many Rethuglicans don't like prochoicers. And that is how he will be labelled.

Good luck in the primaries!

they spend a year ahead of time preparing to be pro choice, anti gay, pro war.

Looks like he's got some fine honing to do.

Um, ask Richard Mourdock and Todd Akin and the Catholic GOP employers and Green Bay WI Dioscese whether or not the GOP is against birth control, Piyush.

Dems didn't have to say a word - all the GOP-gnashing makes it pretty obvious.

Is Jindal in favor of allowing sale of the morning after pill over the counter, for example? I need more information before I am going to give him a pass on this one.

"The End of Birth-Control Politics: Over-the-counter sales of oral contraceptives will cut off a disingenuous attack line."

republicans ARE against birth control.

Waaait a minute. It just occurred to me. Bobby Jindal is "for" access to birth control like Gov. Snyder was "opposed" to Right-to-Work (for less) legislation.

republicans lie.

Jindal is an opportunistic douche. He needs to read his own party's platform and acknowledge the assault on choice in republican-led state legislatures.

If you buy medications OTC, insurance doesn't pay for them. With the ACA, most women are now getting their birth control with no co-pay, hence the freak out by some religious institutions. Make birth control OCA, that problem is solved, and women are now paying thousands of dollars a year, again, to do responsible family planning.

Or at least some of us. And you just caught it. Thanks.

when people who pretend to champion the rights of the people do their best to oppress the rights of the people. Hitler would be proud. Congrats Jindal! We look forward to your impending scandal or marginalization when you are one of the 20 people who attempt to get the repub nomination.

nice first post

DEMOCRATS are demagoguing on birth control?????

From the mouth of the party that wants to regulate
my bedroom, my choices, my doctor's options, run
Planned Parenthood into financial oblivion, and
hound abortion service providers out of business?

Jindal is so arrogant he can't understand his own party.

Hang it up, Bobby.

so no thanks bobby jindal.

I can't wait for the Clan of the Red-Beanie to weigh in on the very Catholic Bobby Jindal on this one!

Pass the popcorn.

The RW IS against birth control. There's nothing disingenuous about that - it's the plain, unvarnished truth.

Will it be readily available in all areas at a reasonable price for purchase? Or at drug stores only, that can stock whatever they "morally/politically" want to or price it sky high?

you'll never make it out of a primary.

Jindal: Hello?
Koch brothers:Governor Jindal this is the Koch brothers
Jindal: Oh hello how are you?What can I do for you?
Koch brothers :just shut the fuck up
Jindal :Oh OK,but I..
Koch brothers: (dialtone)

Or did he inherit Romney's Etch-a-sketch. Not that I specifically remember Jindal being anti-choice/contraception but I do remember him being on the right-wing side of things.

Bobby Jindal has a master's degree in public health.

But whether BC pills are available RX or OTC would be a medical community decision, not a political one.

Are doctors pushing for this?

Just asking.

you all did that pretty well all by yourselves. You didn't need a shove into that pool---you all were running off the diving board, doing cannon balls into that cesspool all on your own.

Yes, you all have been stupid--very very stupid and you all will continue to be stupid as you try to force a moving train going forward to go in reverse. We aren't going backwards, s0n. Get on, sit down and get out your ticket or get off and get rolled over.

When presidential candidates for a party attack a leading pro-contraception Supreme Court case like Griswald v Connecticut, people will naturally infer that the party opposes contraception

New GOP slogan: "Only demagogues ever quote us!"