Posts tagged health care reform
Missouri To Allow Employers To Refuse To Cover Birth Control, Abortion - The Frisky
Bad news out of Missouri this week: employers and insurers who personally oppose birth control, abortion and sterilization will be able to refuse to cover those forms of health care in their employee’s health insurance. Missouri’s Governor Jay Nixon had vetoed the bill, but earlier this week, the Republican-controlled legislature overrode the veto.
Supreme Court Upholds ObamaCare - The Frisky
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If I worked at a religious institution that was allowed to deny birth control coverage due to “immorality”” would I be given a pass because I do need this drug to live a regular, healthy life (“a good reason”), or would I be shunted off because I am sexually active and don’t want to have a baby just now (“a bad reason, you slut!”)? As Sandra Fluke’s testimony to Congress about birth control showed, it would probably be the latter. In cases like mine, the authorities would likely err on the side of shaming. The GOP extremists, the Limbaughs of the world, and the Catholic priests don’t get birth control at all. They don’t get the non-male body. They think they can police what kind of health care women really need, versus what kind will enable us to live in ways — even in ways they disapprove of. They think they can separate women into good and bad categories; they even think they can separate our physical selves into good and bad parts, worthy and unworthy health needs. But we can’t do that. We use birth control to prevent serious conditions like polycystic ovaries, dysmenorrhea, menhoraggia, and endometriosis. We also use birth control also to prevent pregnancy and to prevent anxiety over an unwanted or dangerous pregnancy. Last time I checked, those are pretty serious reasons, too. Sometimes, as in my case, we use it for all those reasons at once. It’s all connected, because it’s all happening in the interdependent systems that are our bodies.
Jon Stewart On Congress’ Anti-Birth Control Sausagefest - The Frisky
Obama Settles Birth Control Debate, Telling Insurers They Must Pick Up Tab If Employer Won’t - The Frisky
Every woman will have access to birth control under the Obama administration’s latest decision regarding health care reform, which was meant to appease Catholic bishops who balked at a previous iteration of the rule. White House officials stated on Friday that insurers must create a policy that doesn’t offer coverage of contraceptives that can be used by religiously-affiliated employers that object. But insurers also have to offer a plan that covers contraceptives without co-pays or deductibles and they are required to reach out and offer it to women. Explicitly religious employers, such as houses of worship, are still exempt from covering contraception in their prescription plans.
Today’s Lady News: Obama Could Compromise On Birth Control Coverage Under Health Care Reform - The Frisky
Birth Control Will Be Covered By Most Employers, Obama Administration Announces - The Frisky
Most employers will be required to cover the full cost of contraception and other preventative services in their health plans under the Affordable Care Act, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today. This means that women’s preventative health care like birth control will be available without co-pays or deductibles when Obama’s health care reform law goes into effect in August 1, 2012.
This past August, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that health insurers would be required to cover birth control without co-pays following the release of a report by the Institute of Medicine. That independent panel of doctors had cited coverage of preventative health care, such as STD screening and birth control, in its recommendation of best practices.
(And of course the talking boobs on Fox News wasted no time asking what Blue Cross/Blue Shield will be forced to cover next — manicures and pedicures?!?! Really. Someone said that. )
