Woman Who Can't Afford Her Own Birth Control Scrapes Up Money For Congressional Run

[DinoDoc]

Childhood vaccines, including (but not limited to):

Why do you want to give children autism?

[snrjefe]

Well, new GOP voters have to come from somewhere. ;-)

[Guynemer]

Why do you want to give children autism?

[snrjefe]

Great, now I need a prescription for a sedative. Thanks Guynemer...

[Guynemer]

That's routine when dealing with me, so I hope you've got the scratch to pay for it.

[snrjefe]

Meh, I have health insurance. ;-)

[Hauldren Collider]

clown

I love insane clown posse!

[Guynemer]

I love insane clown posse!

This would surprise me precisely none at all.

[Hauldren Collider]

They're ****ing horrible and I actually hate them. But they're also kind of hilarious.

This would surprise me precisely none at all.

This is one of the most hurtful things anyone has ever said to me. :'(

[Guynemer]

They're ****ing horrible and I actually hate them. But they're also kind of hilarious.



This is one of the most hurtful things anyone has ever said to me. :'(

While I am a general pediatrician, I do have a subspecialty in tough love.

[pchang]

Your arguments are all flawed:
1) Stop mixing up the benefits of insurance with the benefits of single payer
Example: One can get better pricing for commonly used drugs like penicillin or statins by buying in bulk. As an individual, this is not practical. However, a large single payer (like an insurance company or the government) can do this and pass the savings on to its individual participants
2) Stop cherry picking risk by looking at outcomes after the fact
Example: The argument about how regular drugs like statins should not be insured is based upon looking at an individual after high blood pressure has already been diagnosed. The vast majority of people start with a clean slate and do not have high blood pressure. Only a certain percentage of them will develop high blood pressure. Since this percentage is less than 100%, it does make sense to mitigate the risk.

[notyoueither]

Ad hominems are generally not used by people winning an argument, just for the record.

I'm trying to understand the argument you are making, because it appears incoherent in light of the way the real world operates.

I think he needs to get laid.

[Guynemer]

His name here suggests that I really don't want to think about that, thank you very much.

[notyoueither]

Your arguments are all flawed:
1) Stop mixing up the benefits of insurance with the benefits of single payer
Example: One can get better pricing for commonly used drugs like penicillin or statins by buying in bulk. As an individual, this is not practical. However, a large single payer (like an insurance company or the government) can do this and pass the savings on to its individual participants
2) Stop cherry picking risk by looking at outcomes after the fact
Example: The argument about how regular drugs like statins should not be insured is based upon looking at an individual after high blood pressure has already been diagnosed. The vast majority of people start with a clean slate and do not have high blood pressure. Only a certain percentage of them will develop high blood pressure. Since this percentage is less than 100%, it does make sense to mitigate the risk.

If there were a pill that would ward off hbp and it were relatively cheap (cheaper to supply for those who would not get hbp than to pay for treatment for those who do) would it make sense to cover it through insurance for everybody? Now if there were insurers who had an ideological reason to not cover it, would it make sense to mandate it be covered?

[Ben Kenobi]

I mean, ****, what is more expensive: covering birth control, or covering all the medical costs of pregnancy and birth?

People give birth as often as they use contraception?