So is beer. I want taxpayers to pay for my raging beer habit. I have a right to free recreational beer consumption, and someone else should pay for it. $50 worth of the drug per week should cover it. Whahhh!
Then find a company insurance plan willing to pay for it.
I think that we should agree that a healthcare plan that doesn't cover realistic health conditions is worse than useless. Early intervention can be the difference between a fully formed healthy baby and a mentally disadvantaged one that ends up on the state's dime for the rest of it's life.
I was solely looking at that pregnancy is a covered condition(kuddos Hobby Lobby for going that far!) and it's expensive. Wasn't really looking at that it's government mandated or anything.
As an aside, one of the other sites was mentioning how BC drugs are often used to treat conditions other than preventing pregnancy. Are the banned 4 on that list? I think that was one of the uproars - in order to provide the prescription 'only' for non-abortion/BC use the medical privacy veil would have to be pierced.
Depending on your insurance, it can be cheaper to buy it using the insurance than over the counter. Plus, if you have a Flex Spending or an HSA card, you can only use those cards for the purchase if you have a prescription.
Given that I seriously approve of Healthcare Savings Accounts where people pay for their own care, perhaps their scope needs to be expanded a touch.
