Is birth control covered in the basic plan all insurers must cover?

[ipaint]

None of the bills emerging from the House and Senate require insurers to cover all the elements of a standard gynecological "well visit," leaving essential care such as pelvic exams, domestic violence screening, counseling about sexually transmitted diseases, and, perhaps most startlingly, the provision of birth control off the list of basic benefits all insurers must cover. Nor are these services protected from "cost sharing," which means that, depending on what's in the bill that emerges from the Senate, and, later, the contents of a final bill, women could wind up having to pay for some of these services out of their own pockets. So far, mammograms and Pap tests are covered in every version of the legislation.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091116/lerner

[Lars39]

1. WTF

[chill_wind]

2. WTF # 2.

[chimpymustgo]

3. WTF #3 %^^#%^&&&%#$^^&U**^%%^***(*^

[tosh]

4. Yet another...

:wtf:

[seafan]

5. It is unconscionable not only what is *in* this bill, but also what is *not* in it.

RE the health care bills: Where is contraception?



The Family seems to be getting everything it wants, most especially, curtailment of women's personal rights.

[Lars39]

6. Kick

[Lars39]

7. Who the hell was the idiot who unrecommended this?

It better have been an accident or you are a fucking dipshit.

[chimpymustgo]

10. DU's anti-abortion/anti-women's rights/pro-chessgame bullshit brigade.

[ipaint]

8. At this point it is not in the bill.

Maternity care, mammograms, well baby, well child but no mention of birth control. There is quite a large panel proposed to look at specifics of all coverage AFTER the final bill is passed but none of the bills included birth control or were scored by cbo including it.

See:
hr 3962
Section 222 titled Essential Benefits Package Defined

[ecstatic]

9. This is the type of thing we really should fight for, especially with Stupak/Hyde in place nt

[Lars39]

11. kick

[chimpymustgo]

12. Big-assed kick. Thank you for posting these details.