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No More Co-Pay for Birth Control: Obama

New preventive health rules require insurers to cover cost

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 1, 2011 11:14 AM CDT

(Newser) – Women can say goodbye to co-pays on birth control: Health insurance companies will soon have to cover the cost themselves, the Obama administration says. It’s part of expanded preventive care for women, including coverage of breast pumps, “well woman” physicals, and STD counseling, the AP reports. Insurance firms will likely raise premiums a small amount to handle the cost. Religious institutions may opt out of birth control coverage under the new rules, many of which won't take effect until Jan. 1, 2013.

Insurers soon won't be able to ask patients for a co-pay for birth control, the administration says. (Shutterstock)

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lvan

Aug 1, 2011 8:59 PM CDT

are we getting free condoms too? wtf?

JOHNSPEAKS

Aug 1, 2011 7:49 PM CDT

You can sterilize women for a fraction of the long term cost of birth control???

SilenceDogood

Aug 1, 2011 6:31 PM CDT

You have to love the humor of it all; Monty Python could never have come up with this shit. Obama screwed the pooch on managing the debt crisis; like always he was playing ketchup; but now his “administration” is having insurance companies (that means us) absorb the copay on birth control pills; so why not my grandfathers heart medicine and why not my neighbors diabetes medicine? The Obama daily Aggenda Don’t manage the economy. Play golf. Get insurance companies to pay the copay on birth control pills. Get more regulation in place to keep the businesses in America under control ( code for unprofitable and unable to hire workers). Even though 95% of the taxes are paid by 7% of the taxpayers, we should tax them more. Blame the conservatives for everything. Hope and Change?

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