Michelle wants you to give her a Boo-Freaking-Hoo in response to this:
Cal Poly’s Health and Counseling Services has seen the cost of contraceptives triple in recent months, according to center Director Martin Bragg.
The higher cost, he said, is the result of 2005 federal legislation that barred university health clinics from access to lower-priced drugs.
And while the local Planned Parenthood organization has kept rates the same for its clients paying for birth control, the organization must raise money to cover rising costs to buy the drugs from suppliers, according to its spokeswoman.
Bragg said “thousands” of Cal Poly students seek birth control from the university’s health services center. He said he didn’t have specific numbers, but he estimates a month’s supply of birth control pills now costs Cal Poly students about $25.
That amount isn’t as much as the monthly supply of $40 to $50 for pills in other parts of the country, but it’s more than the $5 to $10 per month that once was standard.
“Students are feeling the increased costs,” he said.
Officials at Planned Parenthood say the higher prices are putting birth control out of reach for many financially strapped students, and they want Congress to make the issue a priority.
So $25.00 is too high? How about a box of condoms? They run about $10.00/box. How about booze costs, can we help them with that too?
Have no fear though, Barack Hussein Obama is here to help:
In Washington, Planned Parenthood has found a sympathetic ear in Democratic Sens. Barack Obama of Illinois and and Claire McCaskill of Missouri. They’ve teamed up on a bill that would reverse the 2005 provision, hoping to bring back discounted prices to college campuses.
A similar bill is pending in the House of Representatives:
:Bragg said he favors congressional intervention in reducing the cost of contraceptives to college students.
“When you look at the data of the termination of pregnancies, this is money well spent,” he said. “The cost of terminating pregnancies or the cost of an unwanted child to society is much higher.”
So again I will remind you that Congress doesn’t see fit to make the tax cuts permanent, but we will do everything in our power to lower the cost of the pill…
Let’s get into the cost of the pill. When one buys the pill, this is what you get:
The packaging is expensive. The makers are forced to sell them this way because the person taking them is obviously too stupid to keep track of their pill consumption. If they didn’t have to dumbdown the packaging, the costs would drop..
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Wow! That’s pretty shameless of you to come out against something like lowering costs for the Pill…
We all know you Cons have cold hearts, but…come on! You’re a woman! Don’t you feel some connection with others out there who might be in need because of this?
Also, as a woman you should know this already, but many women take the Pill for OTHER medical reasons than contraception. Especially college aged women. Cramps, etc…
Well dumb ass…wold you rather lower the cost of the pill or pay for all those babies on welfare?
I have a better idea: Stop paying people for having babies they can’t afford! *-:)
It has become an occupation: Young women, within a few years (or less) of reaching physical maturity, pump out several babies (without the benefit of marriage or anyone showing any responsibility) purposely so they are set for life on the dole. It’s their occupation, it’s their job. There are multiple generations in families that have done the exact same thing.
It would take time and effort, but that social culture needs to change. They have to see that not only is having one child no longer going to be rewarded, but they aren’t going to get more for each additional welfare welp produced.
But that would take some real decisiveness, some real effort, would not empower bureaucrats and Leftists, and I can already hear the cries of racism.
So it won’t be done, although it is the right thing to do.
You know, as much as I thought that was an ignorant rant, I think you should check out this packaging:
http://images-cdn01.associatedcontent.com/image/A5001/50014/300_50014.jpg
It’s much more cost efficient. Everybody wins. Does that solve your problem?
Elizabeth, that is less expensive and does keep the cost down. Another cheap way is to put them in a pill bottle. It’s odd that a person needs to take insulin and the packaging is basic. A bottle of the correct insulin mixture with syringes and the patient does the rest. Why is bc so difficult?
Like I said, if they don’t like the cost, rubbers are a heck of a lot cheaper.
Oh goodness, really?? Women taking birth control are “too stupid” (When they’re actually being responsible about their reproductive health.) because of complicated packaging. Hate to inform, but there are certain kinds of birth control that have different doses depending on what time of the month you’re taking them – so while to an ignorant person, it might be “stupidity” (When one is actually acting responsibly!!! Boggles the mind.) it’s actually specifying where you need to be in your dosage.
I also love this “popping out as many babies to be on the dole” BS. Did you know that black women were denied birth control from the 40s to the 60s because it benefited white sharecroppers? In other words, they were denied reproductive freedom to “pop out as many babies” as possible. But yeah, somehow that bit of history got lost. Amazing. And you talk about “changing the social culture” well who in the hell started that social culture?