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Hey folks....I'm not making this stuff up. I'm just trying to let you know what the Religious Right is pushing in this country....
Birth Control Insurance Bill Dies Again
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(KUTV) Some women have health insurance, but their insurance won't pay for birth control, and they can't afford the extra expense.
Wednesday morning, for the eighth year in a row, Utah lawmakers voted down a bill to required health insurers to include birth control.
2News Rod Decker has more.
Well, it's complicated. The legislature can't regulate about two thirds of Utah's health insurance. That part of the market is under federal law. All of the health insurance that the state can regulate already offers birth control.
It's preventative medicine. It helps women plan their families so they'll be healthy, said Karrie Galloway of Planned Parenthood.
Advocates told the senate committee that access to birth control is important to women's health. Insurance spokesmen explained all of the women who could be guaranteed birth control coverage by the legislature, already have birth control coverage.
Advocates of this bill admit no Utah woman would actually get birth control from this bill.
The advocates say the bill should pass to guarantee that coverage continues, and insurers don't backslide.
Karrie Galloway, planned parenthood:
Assist women to make sure birth control isn't cut off their drug plan, said Karrie Galloway of Planned Parenthood.
Karen Clark, who testified, says women don't really need expensive birth control in any case.
The best birth control is abstinence and that doesn't cost anything, said Karen Clark of the Eagle Forum.
Even if they are married, they should be abstinent? Decker asked.
When they have to they can be abstinent, she said.
(© MMVI, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
Birth Control Insurance Bill Dies Again
Save It Email It Print It
(KUTV) Some women have health insurance, but their insurance won't pay for birth control, and they can't afford the extra expense.
Wednesday morning, for the eighth year in a row, Utah lawmakers voted down a bill to required health insurers to include birth control.
2News Rod Decker has more.
Well, it's complicated. The legislature can't regulate about two thirds of Utah's health insurance. That part of the market is under federal law. All of the health insurance that the state can regulate already offers birth control.
It's preventative medicine. It helps women plan their families so they'll be healthy, said Karrie Galloway of Planned Parenthood.
Advocates told the senate committee that access to birth control is important to women's health. Insurance spokesmen explained all of the women who could be guaranteed birth control coverage by the legislature, already have birth control coverage.
Advocates of this bill admit no Utah woman would actually get birth control from this bill.
The advocates say the bill should pass to guarantee that coverage continues, and insurers don't backslide.
Karrie Galloway, planned parenthood:
Assist women to make sure birth control isn't cut off their drug plan, said Karrie Galloway of Planned Parenthood.
Karen Clark, who testified, says women don't really need expensive birth control in any case.
The best birth control is abstinence and that doesn't cost anything, said Karen Clark of the Eagle Forum.
Even if they are married, they should be abstinent? Decker asked.
When they have to they can be abstinent, she said.
(© MMVI, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
I'm past the point of needing birth control now, but for 25 years we used several inexpensive methods, including abstinence when necessary. My insurance never paid a dime of it. Birth control is not terribly expensive--birth control medication, however, is. Not to mention the effects of taking a systemic drug every day of the year. Why should insurance companies have to pay for a drug that is not used by over half the population? and for the record, I don't think they should pay for Viagra either.
