Quick Hit: Birth control prices soar on campuses
The Associated Press reports that prices for the birth control pills are doubling and tripling at student health centers on college campuses. Great.
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the pharmacy at my school has had a sign posted about this for a couple of months. it says that it's happening because the drug companies are no longer giving them the big discounts that allow the student pharmacies to let women get BC at 1/2 to 1/8 of the retail price.
now who wants to guess why the drug companies are cancelling the lovely deal they used to give?
Completely unaware of the price change in the USA, I just wrote about "learning about family planning from Iran." One thing they did was make all contraceptives free. If Iran can do it, so can we.
http://tinyurl.com/35god7
the senator from texas should subsidize this birth control. two birds, one stone!
"One thing they did was make all contraceptives free."
Not *all* of them. If you want the mint-flavored condoms Keyhan Bod makes instead of the plain ones, you have to buy them at the convenience store instead of getting them for free at the doctor's office.
now who wants to guess why the drug companies are cancelling the lovely deal they used to give?
I'll take that one! Because changes in the Medicaid law make it financially less feasible for pharmaceutical companies to give huge discounts to college campuses and get a rebate from the State for other drugs.
Yeah, nothing anti-woman about it. There's no real right to below-market birth control - sorry.
That all said, it would be nice if MEN were to pick up some of the tab. I know that women feel awkward about asking, but why should it be our bodies that get the hormones and the side effects, our responsibility to take it every day, AND our pocketbooks that take the hit?
I struggled with this one for a while.
Why should we be responsible for the pill? 99.99% of time we are expected to be the ones responsible for BC.
The big issue is why incentives arent made to provide BC to women on campus. If BC was plentiful and cheap, I would expect to see a decline in pregnancies midway through school.
It would only seem sensible, that since this would be the most important achievement for most 18-25 year olds, that a simple protection like this would be given to help ensure completion. Actually, it would make sense to give incentives for women to practice responsible sex/contraceptive habits.
While there may be no civil right to below market BC costs, it seems logical and sensible to do so to this specific demographic.