I have not been following this story, but if some college girl needs $1,000 to have sex, I am sure there are plenty of Republicans that would give her the money.
Someone get her Elliot Spitzer's phone number.

My insurance company if forced by my state to cover birth control for me. My wife and I are unable to conceive but I MUST PAY FOR birth control coverage. That's insane.

You clearly don't understand the concept of "insurance." If you simply paid for what you needed at the time, it wouldn't be called insurance, it would be called paying for procedures yourself.

Insurance is a collective sharing the costs of unknown potential consequences. That's starkly different than paying for what you specifically need. Yes, in the example you gave above, you *must* pay for birth control coverage for someone else just like someone else *must* pay for you when you get cancer, or just like I *must* pay for a wounded Iraq soldier's medical procedure even though *I* didn't support us going to war, and *I* didn't sign up to go over there.

What muddies the waters in this whole debate are the concept of pre-existing conditions, and the fact that the insurance lobby along with the Republicans fucked this all up by trying to do it through private insurance.

If everyone was allowed to choose that finely about what they want or don't want in insurance it would begin to breakdown. Insurance is about collectivization of risk. The entire industry relies on you paying more in that you'll ever take out. How exactly will you pay for BC if your plan doesn't even cover prescriptions?

If her cost estimates are correct she is one horny biatch!!!!!

You always come to the conclusion that people "don't understand" when they are in disagreement with you.

you throw a hissy

Now about insurance. I pay extra money for birth control coverage for my insurance policy. I don't want birth control coverage but I have to take it. If I had a choice I wouldn't get BC coverage. Their are lots of things I don't have coverage for (and don't pay for) because I don't want them. Prescriptions is one of them. I'm taking that risk. It's my choice.

I just want to buy the insurance coverage I think I need. Nothing more nothing less. I don't see why so many have a problem with that.

I don't understand why an insurance company would choose to not cover birth control. Covering Ambien, pain meds, and viagra are money sinks. No return on the investment. Covering birth control can prevent pregnancies which are huge money losers for the insurance company. Guaranteed doctors visits, imaging and at least one hospital stay, and that is for uncomplicated pregnancies. If I'm paying into an insurance policy I want it to cover birth control even if I don't personally use it. It's a financially sound insurance decision.

Jodi

I am saying that if you have to pay for contraception by law and you are bitching about than you should also start bitching about the mental health you are required to pay for.

You get to choose what car you drive. You don't get the same freedom with health problems.