No other class of medical treatment seems to invite the same irrationality that contraception does.

and Christian Scientists will have to pay for health care period. All of them can raise the same objections. How come objections against birth control--i.e. women having sex---are valid---and the others are not?

religious conscience. Am I wrong?

That would not apply to Hobby Lobby since the issue is not the tax penalty is for individuals who could be covered but don't enroll.

Are their practitioners demanding to be covered under the ACA?

it's just gonna change this country over the next generation in a way that we can only glimpse.

Keep us from breeding ourselves out of existence.

sssshhhhhhhhhh.

comprehend anything. We're on a short time table on earth. If we continue the course, mankind will eventually become extinct or a small shadow. To earth it will be nothing new, species come and go. So many humans are just so F'en stupid.

but I still think contraception should be free. It's in society's best interest to see that anyone who wants contraception has access to it.

The antiabortion group should really push this but the ones who believes like Santorium who thinks sex is for procreation and birth control is bad needs to put up the money to care for the babies.

forms of contraception -- such as the hormonal IUD (with only a 0.2% pregnancy rate per year) and hormonal implants such as Implanon which has only a 0.05% pregnancy rate per year.

In contrast, the failure rate of birth control pills is 9% per year (which works out to a 38% chance over 5 years: 1 - 0.91^5).

The article in the OP mentions that contraception is "covered at no cost to plan members" and "zero-cost sharing". (On edit, I should be more specific -- contraception is free to people with ACA-compliant insurance)

[font color = red]On Edit 6/27 812p CT[/font] Here's some notes of mine I found:

This from the Population Connection Reporter 10/2011 - 49% of US pregnancies a year are unintended. Unintended pregnancies cost American taxpayers $11 billion a year for women and their infants up to age one (and of course still more after age one). Only 0.8% of women using the copper IUD become pregnant within one year, and only 0.2% for the hormonal IUD. Hormonal implants (Implanon) have a failure rate of only 0.05% (1/2,000). In contrast, the failure rate of birth control pills is 9% ((1 in 11 chance per year, or over 5 years a 38% chance (1 - 0.91^5) )), primarily through incorrect or inconsistent use.

As for access - many women do ((did)) find the highly reliable forms of birth control to be prohibitively expensive ((before the ACA)) -- according to The Nation 12/19/12, the IUD is $800 to $1000 up front ((before the ACA)) (though it lasts many years). Thus they may opt ((may have opted)) for less reliabile methods such as birth control pills, which though they are inexpensive in the short run, still at $30 - $50 a month ((back then)), it is ((was)) still quite a hit on a low income person's budget. That's why the Obama administration pushed so hard to include free contraceptive coverage in the Affordable Care Act.

this. Contraception along with other basic drugs ARE NOT COVERED FOR FREE. They NOW fall under the cost of your basic coverages WHICH YOU PAY FOR, instead of being an additional expense. People are think they objecting to giving something to someone for free. That person still has to pay the insurance premium.

Many people have their plans subsidized, either through Obamacare or through their employer. Medicaid has also expanded coverage for contraception and greatly expanded the number of people on this free single payer program.

Exemption for non-profit religious institutions. Hobby Lobby is neither a non-profit nor a religious institution.

And the associated cost savings for prenatal and birth?

That would take the wind out of a host of sails. My first thought as well when I read it.

for many women and families. This is wonderful news.

... that the cost of contraception has shot up over this issue. The cost of all meds have grown exponentially in the last 15 years. They've stopped doing R&D on an antibiotic to kill the super bug (antibiotic resistant bacteria), as it is not a money-maker. This is why our medical system should be not-for-profit (i.e., should NOT be privatized.)

... I know what the article was about. I will go read it now, but all I was referencing was the fact that every time the wind blows, the cost of meds go up. I have not been watching TV this evening... did the SC reveal it's Hobby-Lobby decision today? Just turned on Bill Maher and his guest is talking about the superbug tonight.

this article refers to the fact that it would seem that more women have access to birth control now and that is a very good thing - I have not heard of a Hobby Lobby decision but find it distressing that companies could impose their sanctimonious bullshit on all employees

... fundamentalist evangelical religion has it's foot in the government's door. All businesses would be "persons" who have control over it's employees in untold ways. I can't believe the SC will rule on their behalf. This opens up a can of worms thousands of ways, if you think about it.

Oh yeah. It's a political backlash vendetta against the ACA, er, "Obamacare". Anything that Obama touches, is scorned by some businesses. And actually, this is quite unusual. As the pharmaceutical & insurance companies actually WROTE the ACA, didn't they? PO trusted them to do the right thing and looks to me like they screwed him in the process. At least, that is what sticks out to me. How far off am I? Sorry if I hit a nerve and I apologize for not taking time to read the article.

every American knows that

through and through.....

That was how it was for the most part until maybe the 1980s or late 1970s. That is that when I was a child, Blue Cross and Blue Shield for example were non-profits. That's the way i remember it.

... but that was after I had had a tubal ligation. When I was younger, I had wanted to have a tubal and the Dr wouldn't do it. That burned me up. They would NOT allow me to make my own decisions about my life. So I had to use the pills for BC. And the pills didn't go over big inside my body. I think I was allergic to them, actually. I got pregnant while taking them! As for the cost, BC pills did not cost an arm and a leg, so I could afford them out-of-pocket.

She had 3 kids between the ages of 18 to 22 and begged the doctor to tie her tubes after #3. He refused because she was "too young." Of course she went on to have #4 (my son-in-law, so it's not all a bad thing!) and only then could she have the procedure. I really hope doctors aren't so presumptuous of women's decisions these days.

...while standing outside of clinics and screaming at the patients prevents scarcely any abortions at all.

I wonder which approach the "protesters" will favor going forward?

Birth control should be free across the board.

which is, I'd think, the most common time for unwanted pregnancies.

Being opposed to abortion is one thing, but being opposed to contraception is the height of stupidity.