If you have extreme pain you might be prescribed morphine or dilaudid (which is, really, just synthetic heroin), but you can't legally use them recreationally. Xanax is legal as an anti-anxiety drug, but it's not supposed to be used as a sleeping pill.
My point is that a birth control pill should certainly be covered by health insurance if it's being used to treat a medical condition, but I really don't see why it should be covered if it is going to be used other than for a medical condition. Go out and buy it on your own money; your doctor can still prescribe it to you, but you don't, strictly speaking, NEED it.
Of course, I have no problem with the day after pill being legal, either. From an insurance perspective, it would be cheaper to just cover that rather than bother with the ongoing cost of birth control pills.
By the way, if you ever are in pain in the hospital, ask for dilaudid. The high is so intense you feel like you're about to come so hard you can feel it in your fingertips and toes.
My point is that a birth control pill should certainly be covered by health insurance if it's being used to treat a medical condition, but I really don't see why it should be covered if it is going to be used other than for a medical condition. Go out and buy it on your own money; your doctor can still prescribe it to you, but you don't, strictly speaking, NEED it.
Of course, I have no problem with the day after pill being legal, either. From an insurance perspective, it would be cheaper to just cover that rather than bother with the ongoing cost of birth control pills.
By the way, if you ever are in pain in the hospital, ask for dilaudid. The high is so intense you feel like you're about to come so hard you can feel it in your fingertips and toes.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
So it's International Women's Day today.
- 08/03/2012 07:54:22 PM
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It's International Communist Women's Day.
- 08/03/2012 07:59:12 PM
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What about Labor Day? *NM*
- 08/03/2012 08:13:32 PM
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Deliberately celebrated on the first Monday in September; 1 May is "Loyalty Day."
- 08/03/2012 10:24:27 PM
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Yes, yes, the US likes to be obstinate. Even so.
- 08/03/2012 08:34:17 PM
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Re: Yes, yes, the US likes to be obstinate. Even so.
- 08/03/2012 10:35:11 PM
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Yes, but "socialist American women" are usually the ugly ones that don't shave their armpits.
- 09/03/2012 12:25:05 AM
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Unions are themselves controversial, as I'm sure you're aware.
- 09/03/2012 12:23:13 AM
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I don't suppose there's much of a point to try moving it.
- 09/03/2012 07:21:26 PM
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To paraphrase Office Space: I do believe you'd get your ass kicked here for singing that.
- 10/03/2012 01:16:17 AM
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Yeah, I have learned truckloads about International Womens Day in the past year.
- 08/03/2012 10:01:47 PM
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Not to discourage you but...
- 08/03/2012 10:27:10 PM
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I don't see what's good about a 'legal right to free contraception'
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Well
- 09/03/2012 07:38:44 PM
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You can get condoms for about $0.50
- 10/03/2012 01:24:47 AM
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Yeah, I know. My best friend got pregnant while using one (though I wasn't there to document
- 10/03/2012 11:42:10 AM
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Once again: if the Pill is used to correct health problems IT IS NOT CONTRACEPTION
- 10/03/2012 06:31:12 PM
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And... it's still the same pill, regardless of why it's being prescribed.
- 10/03/2012 06:41:23 PM
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It's not that radical of a concept.
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If the Catholic Church recognizes that exception, they would be well served to say so.
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I don't give a flying fuck about the Catholic Church's position on this.
- 11/03/2012 03:28:34 AM
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I first put '50s, then figured surely many would be older still.
- 09/03/2012 07:14:50 PM
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Re: I first put '50s, then figured surely many would be older still.
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Yeah, the companies that appear in them can't be too proud of that history. *NM*
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