cOVer MY pILLs

Last time I checked some of you gave some great advice about Birth Control methods. Last week, I visited the Margaret Sanger Center on Bleeker Street, which is the Manhattan branch of Planned Parenthood NYC.
I had a great discussion with a smart midwife at P squared.

One of the things we complained about was the lack of insurance coverage for birth control pills which we both agreed was a dumb move by misogyonistic health companies and policy makers. She reffered me to a site called COVER MY PILLS which advoces that contraception is basic healthcare for women.

their mission:

We believe that contraception should be treated in the same way as other medical needs. This means that insurance plans should treat prescription contraception the same way they treat other prescriptions, and that to fail to do so is sex discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. This also means that pharmacists and doctors should make sure that a woman's contraception prescription gets filled, no matter what his or her personal views about contraception are.

According to the midwife, those making these decisions just aren't aren't particularly partial to women's health care, a mistake that could be costly.

Consider the newly released HPV vaccine. Doctor's offices must pay $200-$300 for each vaccine which must be stored at a certain tempature until it expires. As of now, there are very few places offering the vaccine due to the cost, some of which is undoubtedly passed on to the patient. Imagine if pharmaceutical companies, insurance and healthcare providers, and hospitals decided to offer the vaccine on a widespread basis. There is a lot of money to be made in that venture!