Jexzebel Lies: "Actually, Birth Control’s Pretty Expensive" - oh, not so much

**bob** · 02-17-2012 07:37 PM

xhttp://jezebel.com/5885368/actually-birth-controls-pretty-expensive

First, many parts of the article discuss how expensive birth control is without insurance - but the whole controversy regarding the .gov has been only regarding women with insurance from religious institutions.

Moving on from there:

Three fourths of women of reproductive age have private insurance, but even with private insurance, women often have to shoulder more of the cost of birth control than do plan participants with other prescriptions, which can run upwards of $50 per month, depending on the method.

($50/month) / (28days/month) = $1.78 per day (using the shortest possible month).

How could any women be too stupid to spend $1.78 a day to not get pregnant?

**Spoon** · 02-18-2012 12:51 AM

When you talk about women not being able to afford birth control I think about females who make less than $30,000 a year, at the very most.

The high cost of birth control has prompted 25% of women who make less than $75,000 per year to put off going to the doctor. About 29% of women in the same income range have used their birth control method incorrectly in an attempt to try to make it last longer. And half of women haven't used their method as directed because it's cost-prohibitive.

$75,000?! If you make that much money and you can't put aside $600 for not getting knocked up... Where the fuck does the money go? Where the fuck does it go?!

And sterilization costs around $6,000 without insurance.

That's a lifetime investment. After ten years you are saving money.

It's your body, your choice, your problem.

**bob** · 02-18-2012 05:44 AM

Originally Posted by Truyardy

This^ is my sister in a nutshell. Everytime I see this girl she's drinking coffee. I don't know what the fuck is up with them and coffee. lol

If it were run of the mill coffee, I'd say it was caffeine addiction. I've got a pretty good jones for caffeine myself.

But if it's the expensive, sugar-laden stuff that takes 10 minutes to say the order, that's something altogether different and more stupid.

**TheManWithAPlan** · 02-18-2012 05:57 AM

I'll state my opinion and I know it won't be popular but here it goes. Viagra is covered by insurance, so why not birth control? You can get free condoms from virtually any clinic so no big deal. Yeah I don't think we should be paying shit out for women and let them get a free ride, but children are FAR more expensive than $50 a month. There are (a soon to be majority at this rate) women out there who don't even know who the father of their child is, even after going through 30+ guys. Do you really want the state to help raise another criminal, support another slut single mom all on taxpayer dollars? At some point we're just going to have to go for the best/cheapest option, which in this case is free birth control.

Don't forget outside of all other costs, education up to and including high school costs around $350 thousand in the US alone (per kid), so that + everything else for every bastard child, considering the fact that most people earn around $2 million in their lifetimes, I would think avoiding unnecessary child births would be a good thing.

**bob** · 02-18-2012 06:32 AM

Originally Posted by TheManWithAPlan

I'll state my opinion and I know it won't be popular but here it goes. Viagra is covered by insurance, so why not birth control?

The issue is: should religious institutions be compelled to pay for the insurance to do this? I'd bet the organizations whose insurance plans don't cover contraception are probably not covering Viagra either.

As a taxpayer, I agree with you that everybody should be able to get contraceptives. As a taxpayer, I'd be willing to pay for that. Hell, they should mandatory for a lot of people.

But that's a whole different thing than fed.gov telling religious institutions that they must pay. That is a wholly improper use of the power of the State.

**SteelHardHawk** · 02-18-2012 06:44 AM

Originally Posted by TheManWithAPlan

Viagra is covered by insurance, so why not birth control?

Viagra is treating erectile disfunction. The difference is that without viagra, men with ED cannot perform. With or without birth control, a woman can still have sex, or choose not to. It's really not the same problem at all, one is about contraceptives, the other is about a medical problem.