I will be sending my payment for my birth control to the insurance companies. This is because I dont believe they should be forced to pay for my birth control! If you want to have sex deal with the prices and the consequences, stop being children and grow up. Also, the “affordable healthcare bill” will and does force insurance and medical prescriptions prices to skyrocket. Dont think so? Go in to a hospital and request and tylenol, $150 a pop. Why is this? All the affordable healthcare regulations and taxes on them force prices high to be able to operate within those regulations and taxes. Sounds appealing right? Didn’t think.
This is frankly beside the point, but it is just one SMALL thing in your life that will change because of the SCOTUS decision. If you have any questions on this decision, ask the french, Spanish, or Greeks… They all had these programs and guess what? They’re dying as counties. Sounds so pleasurable and great for people.
Do you honestly believe it costs $150 to get a tylenol at a hospital because of government regulations and taxes? Or more specifically, you think this is only because of government regulations and taxes? Do you know how hospitals work?
Also, you can go ahead and send payments you haven’t been billed for to your insurance company for birth control because you believe they shouldn’t have to pay for your sextracurricular activities. They will, of course, end up sending that money back to you or crediting it to your account, because that’s how insurance companies work. Actually, paying for your medications period is how insurance companies work, so I guess I fail to see why the fact that this medication is somehow related to your sex life, or anything fun you voluntarily do, makes a difference. I mean, you don’t see insurance companies agreeing en masse not to cover prenatal care because HOLY$H!TYOUHADSEXNOTONOURDIMEBUCKO! Or refusing to cover broken limbs because they happened during recreational activities or refusing to pay for treatment for food poisoning because someone got food poisoning while attending a social event. That’s not how things work.
While we’re on the topic of how things don’t work, I really don’t know why you are criticizing France, Spain and Greece when it comes to their healthcare systems. The US spends much more on healthcare per capita and against GDP than Spain, France or Greece[1] and with worse health outcomes[2]. In other words, we pay more money for worse care. If you’re going to point to someone’s healthcare system as evidence that the one we have is less costly or provides better care, it would behoove you to find a country that actually is more costly and provides worse care.