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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]I was thinking about the cost of birth control versus the cost of giving birth and I had an epiphany. Who bears this cost? Individuals, government, or others? In the case of employer-provided health insurance, it is most certainly the insurance company (at least for birth if birth control is not covered). [b]So, who then has an interest in seeing birth control covered? The insurance companies[/b]. In any contest between Catholic bishops and the insurance industry, it will a blow-out for the insurance industry where the Obama administration is concerned. That's not even a fair contest. Stalin once famously asked, "How many divisions does the Pope have?" The Obama equivalent would be, "How many bundled contributions can the Bishops make?" This is case closed as far as I'm concerned. Compromise or no compromise, birth control will be covered one way or another.

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Cmon Jeff, admit it. Did you know what the compromise on this issue was going to be before it was announced to the rest of us? Otherwise it seems like you can see the future...[/quote]

I agree with the bolded part above.  However I am in HR and we've had a challenge over the years getting plans to include prescription birth control.  I can't understand why as it seems to me that the cost analysis would indicate, free BC for all.  But the insurance companies never seemed to see it that way in my past experience.  At one point we had a really old plan that actually covered INFERTILITY, but would not cover BC pills.  Go figure.[/quote]

In my mind, the real difference is whether insurance companies should be required to provide birth control or not.  If an insurer wants to provide it based on a cost benefit anaylsis, that is the insurer's choice.  But mandating it makes no sense.   Mandating the provision of certain health care services (such as 24 hour stay after giving birth) is different, because insurers have an economic incentive to do the opposite: namely withhold treatment.

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