Posted on 07/08/2015 4:35:25 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
American women are spending much less money on birth control since the Affordable Care Act started requiring insurance plans to cover contraception, according to a new analysis.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania examined health insurance claims from one of the country’s largest private insurers in 2012 (pre-Obamacare) and 2013 (post-Obamacare). They found that spending on the pill, America’s most popular birth control method, quickly fell 38 percent -- from $33 to $20, on average. Spending on IUDs, meanwhile, plummeted 68 percent, from $262 to $84.
The total savings, the health economists estimate: $1.4 billion.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Duh - if they are paying for their insurance, it has not saved them anything.
No.
What it’s done is give birth control to women and then turned arouynd and sent the bill to YOU.
And you wonder why you can’t afford to pay those doctor’s bills or get the garage door fixed.
Wonder no longer - you’re paying for some stranger’s good time.
Who is this young boy?
These women paid part of the bill themselves, and the rest was wealth transfer — from other women.
Somebody is paying for it
What ‘savings’?
It is all divided up to spread the burden by all.
Why is it the government’s job to fund birth control. It should be the responsibility of the one’s involved in the act that initiates births.
She is truly a poster child for the look at me, its all about me, the smartest and most talented person is me, let’s focus on me, self-centeredness that is leading the world into stagnation.
So glad that we can cut back on the frequency of mammograms, increase the insurance premiums on those already struggling, and start down the path of rationing and death panels - so that we can save women money on contraceptives. After all, isn’t that more important?
Sad.
About 10 million women are on BCPs and less than 4 million women use IUDs. They forgot to take into account the premium increases as well as the rising deductibles and copays, which would show the true disaster that is Obamacare. In a nutshell, this article is one giant lie!
Wow did I misread the headline.
I thought it said “Obama has saved women millions...”.
My question was going to be why? Do they look at him and decide not to have sex? :)
the left want to turn something that was cheap and affordable to something that is expensive and unaffordable
Unadulterated BS.
I thought gay marriage would do that.
Trust me, we're all getting screwed.
LOL. LOLOLOL! ROTFL! Very appropriate response.
No.
What they did was cut the options for birth control severely - not even offering exemptions for medical conditions. So if you can’t take the generic, most common BC, you have to pay out of pocket.
Women have switched from safer BC to more dangerous options (for them, personally) to save money.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/04/16/loopholes-remain-in-obamacare-birth-control-coverage
“While the [Affordable Care Act] preventive service requirements specify that FDA-approved contraception is a covered benefit, that benefit still has an impact on the overall cost of coverage,” she wrote in an email. “If plans were required to cover every single birth control option under all of those FDA-approved methods, the costs to consumers would be significant.”
Duh.
So now women have the government-approved option or they pay BIG time - even with a prescription.
Put in another, more accurate, way: ObamaCare has cost men over $1 billion in birth control.
Almost, the (un)affordable care act has saved/cost women the difference between what they paid through the act for birth control and what they would have spent on birth control with their old plans or on self paid. This number can of course be positive or negative.
A further complication is whether health care is a net subsidy to women or men. Women probably use health care more than men, but then they live longer on average so it would take a careful study to find a good answer. And there are probably addition complications I have not listed.
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