Wednesday, November 27, 2013

This is How Much Birth Control Could Cost If the Supreme Court Rules Against the ACA

http://www.policymic.com/articles/74917/this-is-how-much-birth-control-could-cost-if-the-supreme-court-rules-against-the-aca

this is also how little republicans care about women and their families.

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If the Supreme Court strikes down this requirement, it could end up costing millennial women about $50,000 each during the course of their lifetimes. (More on that depressing statistic in a moment.)
The Green family, Hobby Lobby's owners, specifically opposes paying for coverage of Plan B, Ella, and two types of IUDs on the basis that these forms of birth control promote abortion. Not only is that premise scientifically inaccurate, but if their case is successful it would have dangerous implications for other companies seeking to undermine the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and for the millions of millennial women using birth control today.
If the court strikes down the birth control mandate it could raise some serious legal questions. For example, should an employer also be able to withhold coverage of vaccines because he or she believes they cause autism? What about Christian Scientists who own businesses?
By taking away women's access to free birth control coverage, it would have immediate, tangible financial effects for women.
i have not changed my mind since yesterday i still believe that this is not so much rweligious beliefs but an attempt to get around the law at their employee's expense, oh an d btw they make more money because they say it in senses them, 
meantime that employee may fall by the wayside if complications arise from not being able to get or afford. do they deny this same treatment to their female family members or just the ones they don't care about their health? 
Any millennial woman could tell you that birth control is both expensive and hugely varied in cost. And an overwhelming 70% of Americans think that insurance companies should be required to cover birth control, as they do other preventative services.
Organizing for Action has estimated that birth control copay costs average $600 a year for women, and will total an average of $18,000 over a women's lifetime. But that might even be a conservative estimate.
Mother Jones has a calculator of birth control costs based on various research, and when I entered my age into the calculator I was greeted with an estimated cost of $49,259 to prevent pregnancy for the rest of my lifetime without insurance.
once again the money is in the treatment not the cure.  those employers that refuse to respect their female workers needs are telling them they are not worth the money they could get back by passing it along to it's patrons,.