Calculator: How Expensive is Birth Control?
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To hear some conservative politicians tell it, you’d think birth control pills fall from the sky and IUDs grow on trees. During the recent controversy over President Barack Obama’s rule requiring insurance companies to offer birth control free of charge, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum claimed birth control “costs just a few dollars.” Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) went even further, arguing that “not one woman” has ever been denied access to contraception because she could not afford it. […]
According to the Center for American Progress, even women with private health insurance often shoulder a significant portion of the cost for their prescription birth control needs. That’s one of the reasons women of reproductive age spend 68 percent more on out-of-pocket health care expenses than their male counterparts do. And contrary to Rep. Price’s claim, surveys show that women do indeed forgo contraception—or use it inconsistently—when they’re in a financial crunch.
[NB: More than just cis women need and want access to affordable birth control.]
For insured I will pay just under 10,000 dollars. I’m lucky, I have health insurance. If I was uninsured it would be more than 51,000 dollars. And, personally, I think I’ll pay more because I’m on “seasonal” birth control which means I buy 4 packs more a year than someone who takes birth control where they have a period every month. So that’s a rough estimate, it’s a low-ball estimate.
Love,
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(Source: keepyourbsoutofmyuterus)
