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Monday, August 01, 2011

Insurers Required To Cover Birth Control


WASHINGTON (AP) — Health insurance plans must cover birth control as preventive care for women, with no copays, the Obama administration said Monday in a decision with far-reaching implications for health care as well as social mores.


The requirement is part of a broad expansion of coverage for women's preventive care under President Barack Obama's health care law. Also to be covered without copays are breast pumps for nursing mothers, an annual "well-woman" physical, screening for the virus that causes cervical cancer and for diabetes during pregnancy, counseling on domestic violence, and other services.


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3 comments:

Jack K Richards said...

They should be given at clinics followed by a class in how to use them to some of those sprouting a ton of kids w/ no father figure. Grrrrrrrrrrrr

Anonymous said...

they should implant men at birth and only let them reverse the procedure when they can contractually provide for their off spring

Anonymous said...

6:42, provide what? Money. Typical money grubbing female who only looks at men as meal tickets. This is 2011 hon, don't you think both the man and woman should be able to financially support their offspring before having them?