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Originally Posted by Choker
SO now Obama is trying to save face. Heard a spokesman say that every woman has the right to free birth control. WTF is going on in this country. Every woman has the right to free birth control? I don't remember reading that in the Constitution. Here my government is forcing insurance companies into this shit which results in my health insurance increasing. Government needs to get the fuck out of private business.
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I don't think people should have the right to get skiing and other voluntary sports accidents covered by insurance. All it does it drive up the costs of my coverage.
I've known dozens of idiots who have had sports accidents costing $50k, 100K, 125K to get fixed - and I have to pay for it.
I've never had a major sports accident requiring hospitalization - and i was a martial arts addict for years. Why should I pay for other people who are careless and shouldn't be messing about in things they aren't prepared for?
I have relatives - one rich asshole smashed into a tree skiing and the whole thing cost over 200K, the other family has a kid who has had over 500k in proceedures for fucking rugby injuries. Rugby - you've got to be kidding, right - no, fucking rugby in college.
You get the government to outlaw voluntary sports coverage, make people pay extra for that shit, keep the costs of it off my insurance, and I'll support your otherwise unfair desire to keep women from getting birth control paid for by insurance.
I also agree - we should give birth control out freely, pills should be an over the counter medication, but you have to pay and get licencsed to have kids.
Heres a recent article arguing for over-the-counter birth control pills.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...a-postrel.html
Contrary to widespread belief, there?s no good reason that oral contraceptives -- a far more effective form of birth control -- can?t be equally convenient.
True, making the pill available over the counter could reduce the amount of outrage and invective available for entertaining radio audiences, spurring political fundraising and otherwise amusing the American public. But the medical risks are quite low.
Partly because birth-control pills are available only by prescription, people tend to think they?re more dangerous and less well understood than they actually are. In fact, ?more is known about the safety of oral contraceptives than has been known about any other drug in the history of medicine,? declared an editorial in the American Journal of Public Health back in 1993. That editorial accompanied an article arguing for over-the-counter sales.