Women Are Spending $1.4 Billion Less On Birth Control Due To Obamacare: Report

[niyad]

(so it is evident that one of the reasons for the attack on the ACA is the continued war on women, and the bottom lines of big pharma)


Women Are Spending $1.4 Billion Less On Birth Control Due To Obamacare: Report

Spending on birth control has significantly decreased since the Affordable Care Act’s mandate for insurance companies to cover contraception went into effect in August of 2012, according to a new report.



An analysis published Tuesday in Health Affairs shows that women have saved $1.4 BILLION on birth control pills, while out-of-pocket spending on intrauterine devices has fallen 68 percent. Annual out-of-pocket savings were $248 for IUDs and $255 annually for oral contraceptives. The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to cover all birth control methods approved by the Food and Drug Administration without any form of cost-sharing, like copayments or deductibles. The Health Affairs report found that in the six months leading up to the birth control mandate, pill users spent an average of $32.74 per prescription, with that number falling to $20.37. Average spending on IUDs fell from $262.38 to $84.30.



“It turns out the law is doing exactly what the law says should be done,” said the lead author of the report, Nora Becker, according to Newsweek. “I was surprised by the speed at which we’ve seen a drop in price.” Investigations conducted by Kaiser Family Foundation have found that some insurers are using a loophole to evade the mandate’s requirements.

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But not all health consumers are seeing the benefits of the birth control mandate, since some people who are privately insured are signed on to plans that were grandfathered under Obamacare and are not subject to the mandate barring out-of-pocket birth control spending. Faith-based organizations also have continued to challenge the provision on the grounds that an exemption to the law still violates their beliefs.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/07/obamacare-birth-control-_n_7747332.html

[ismnotwasm]

1. Scratch a Rebuplican objection to any healthcare plan

And you find the same misogyny. They really are sick in the head

[niyad]

2. you are absolutely correct.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. I have said for many years that men in general

tend to distrust women and some dont always like them much, and the more conservative a man is or the more his brain works that way the more he will distrust and dislike women.

What we will see is a full out governmental decree that women do not have a right to their own bodies. Abortion is first, then watch for attempts to redefine rape.

[pamela]

6. God bless you, Eliot Rosewater.

Welcome to DU!

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. Thank you. How sweet.

Do you know who Eliot Rosewater is?

[pamela]

8. I know (and love) the Vonnegut book.

I figured that was where you got your username.

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. Indeed

[cbdo2007]

3. I just had a vasectomy a few months ago at 100% coverage as well.

I'll never understand them wanting to remove free birth control, especially when they all get pregnant accidentally as well.

[niyad]

4. they have no problem with access to contraception and abortions--just for them only.