The most cost-efficient method turns out to be a diaphragm, according to an analysis in U.S. News and World Report. The cup-shaped rubber device, which a woman inserts with a spermicide before intercourse, costs around $60 per year to use (not including the appointment to get it fitted).
Abstinence and fertility-awareness are free, strictly speaking in dollars and cents, as is the prophylactic of last resort: the pull-out method. However, that method is also the least effective. As many a mother has reminded her daughters and sons: All it takes is one swimmer.
Alexandria Bullock, 25, a category manager for a marketing company in Boise, Idaho, likes the flexibility of a once-a-month program. She recently started using the NuvaRing and pays $25 for the device, which is inserted monthly and deploys time-release hormones.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/04/14/contraception-cost-birth-control-pills-craigslist/
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$25 montly x 36 months = $900
So you think we should pay for the most expensive birth control pills of Fluke’s choice?
The most cost efficient method of birth control is certainly not the diaphragm, when you take into account the high pregnancy rate even with perfect use, 5-6%. It is considerably higher for women who have already had a child even when they have been properly refitted, perhaps 15%. (And if you’ve ever tried to insert that spring-loaded, slippery, self-launching disk during the height of passion, you’d pay for something else.)
1) I don’t think Catholic institutions should have to pay for contraception. My daughter needed the BCP to regulate extremely heavy menses, her Catholic college woulddn’t cover it, we didn’t argue, we paid out of pocket for her doctor and her prescription.
2) I am dubious about insurance companies covering routine medications - is it cost-efficient or not?
3) I don’t think policy holders should have to pay for other policy holders to take expensive brand names if there is an effective generic.
4) I think Fluke is playing fast and loose with the truth, saying contraception can cost up to $1000 a year. What does it typically cost? I doubt her story about her lesbian friend with PCOS losing an ovary because she was denied the BCP and couldn’t afford it. I doubt all her sob stories: the women of Georgetown can’t afford contraception! They’re embarrassed! Fluke is a typical leftist narrative-framer, and Rush played right into it.
5) Fluke never said she used contraception, or used it to the tune of $1000 a year. Rush confused the issue, played the obnoxious blowhard for laughs in an offensive fashion, threw red meat to his followers, many of whom are now confused on the issue also.
6)Georgetown deserves what ever trouble it has coming to it, for recruiting students like Fluke instead of looking for bright young orthodox Catholics.