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Monday, March 05, 2012

Attention Media: Walmart and Target Have Been Offering $9 Birth Control Since 2007

For over two months the Left and their media minions have been making a big stink about the need for mandatory health insurance coverage of contraceptives.

In all this fuss and distraction from the real problems this nation is facing, nobody noticed that since 2007 Walmart has been offering a month's worth of birth control pills for only $9 (emphasis added):

BENTONVILLE, Ark. – Sept. 27, 2007 – Walmart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) today announced phase two of its $4 prescription program with changes that will help even more Americans deal with the high-cost of healthcare. The program – which has already saved Americans more than $610 million in its first year – has been expanded in two key ways:

More medicines covering more categories – Important prescription medicines have been added to the $4 program covering glaucoma, attention deficit disorder/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD), fungal infections and acne. Fertility and prescription birth control Linkwill also be included at $9, compared to national average prices ranging from $24 to $30 per month and saving women an

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Once again,
The Obama regime asserting public/social policy. WRONG!

If you want non-medical necessity birth control, pay for it yourself.
It should never be anything other than elective.

Anonymous said...

Will insurance companies be required to cover medical marijuana too?

Anonymous said...

4:16

I hope so.

Anonymous said...

Why would I pay at walmart when I'm already paying premiums that should cover them?