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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMillions of Women Now Pay Nothing for Birth Control. Thanks Obamacare!
Millions of Women Now Pay Nothing for Birth Control. Thanks Obamacare!
By Molly Redden Dec. 11, 2013 http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/12/millions-of-women-get-free-birth-control-under-obamacare-2013
The percentage of privately insured women who didn't pay a dime for birth control pills almost tripled this year, rising from 15 percent in 2012 to 40 percent in 2013. That's according to a new study from the Guttmacher Institute, a think tank that backs abortion rights. The study, which was published in the journal Contraception, examined the effects of an Affordable Care Act rule requiring private insurers to cover contraceptive products and counseling with no co-pay.
This same rule has come under sustained, delirious assault by Republicans who paint it as an attack on employers' religious beliefs. During the debt ceiling crisis this fall, some House Republicans were willing to let the government default if the final financial deal did not include a "conscience clause" allowing employers to sidestep the mandate if it violated their religious beliefs. (The Obama administration has already exempted a narrowly defined set of religious institutions.)
That battle will come to a head this spring, when the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. Citing their Christian beliefs, owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores are refusing to provide their female employees with insurance that covers contraceptive services. A decision in favor of Hobby Lobby could blow a hole in the contraception mandate, allowing any private employer to withold birth control coverage simply by citing their religious beliefs.
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This same rule has come under sustained, delirious assault by Republicans who paint it as an attack on employers' religious beliefs. During the debt ceiling crisis this fall, some House Republicans were willing to let the government default if the final financial deal did not include a "conscience clause" allowing employers to sidestep the mandate if it violated their religious beliefs. (The Obama administration has already exempted a narrowly defined set of religious institutions.)
That battle will come to a head this spring, when the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. Citing their Christian beliefs, owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores are refusing to provide their female employees with insurance that covers contraceptive services. A decision in favor of Hobby Lobby could blow a hole in the contraception mandate, allowing any private employer to withold birth control coverage simply by citing their religious beliefs.
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Millions of Women Now Pay Nothing for Birth Control. Thanks Obamacare! (Original Post)
Coyotl
Dec 2013
OP
Actually many will be paying something indirectly through taxes. It's not free and even
brewens
Dec 2013
#1
To me this is the very simple question, I am beginning to think it is about forced births
Thinkingabout
Dec 2013
#5
brewens
(13,620 posts)1. Actually many will be paying something indirectly through taxes. It's not free and even
people like me that want a single payer system, don't expect anything for free. We do expect to get a better deal than we have for several years though.
MH1
(17,600 posts)4. Has anyone calculated the net cost change to the taxpayer?
If unwanted births among low income women go down, presumably costs for children's services go down.
Other costs of a steadily increasing population will be reduced as the rate of increase is slowed due to more accessible birth control.
That may offset the cost of providing the birth control. In fact by my gut I am sure of it. I just wonder if anyone has done something more scientific than my gut to estimate it.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)5. To me this is the very simple question, I am beginning to think it is about forced births
Rather than the birth control.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)2. Hobby Lobby still fighting to control women, huh?
Clowns
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)3. K&R #5. n/t
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