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

[Ben Kenobi]

It makes perfect sense to cover contraceptives if you think family planning is a good idea. Just because something doesn't fit in with your hypothetical ideal of what insurance should be doesn't mean it doesn't make sense.

How on earth is that relevant to a cover/not cover argument? I could argue that family planning isn't a good idea ergo it shouldn't be covered.

[Ben Kenobi]

Childhood vaccines, including (but not limited to): DTaP, IPV, HiB, HepB, HepA, Rotavirus, Pneumococcus, MMR, Varicella, Influenza

Influenza is a bullcrap vaccine. I'd cover DTaP, MMR, IPV. Rest is no.

Asthma treatment, including (but not limited to): bronchodialators, inhaled corticosteroids, equipment to adequately deliver said medications

I'd lean on the side of no, because asthma is a lifelong condition and broncodilalators, cortosteriods, would be routine care for someone with Asthma.

Allergy treatment, including (but not limited to): over-the-counter antihistamines, both short and long-acting, nasal corticosteroids, leukotriene inhibitors

Can it be available OTC? Then it doesn't need to be covered.

Various treatments for various infectious diseases, such as several different classes of oral and topical antibiotics

How expensive are antibiotic regimes? They are overprescribed too.

The point of catastrophic insurance is just that - to provide coverage for catastrophic care. People can pay for these things reasonably out of pocket. Surgery? No.

[regexcellent]

I paid for medical care with cash today. 5 twenties
also **** i have appendicitis

[Guynemer]

That's unfortunate.

[pchang]

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?

Again, this is a case of looking at the risk after the fact. Whether the meds are cheap or not does not matter. What matters is that the population starts without the condition and that the odds of people getting the condition are less than 1.

[notyoueither]

Again, this is a case of looking at the risk after the fact. Whether the meds are cheap or not does not matter. What matters is that the population starts without the condition and that the odds of people getting the condition are less than 1.

I don't accept the premise that the odds of people getting the condition should be the sole factor.

If it's better for more people and cheaper than treating the condition, then mandating its provision by the system should be fair game. cf vaccines.

[Lorizael]

This pisses me off.

You can't just read a thread, you jack**** ******? Instead you want to play dumb and score cheap rhetorical points by ignoring what other people say?



I said that pages ago. But your snide ass would rather play the ****** card, and pretend like you don't know what "routine" means. **** you, Guy. You're a bad person, and you should feel bad.

Felch, did you forget to take your weed today?

[Kidlicious]

I don't know if he's gonna be ashamed. It's a pointless argument anyway.

[Guynemer]

Felch, did you forget to take your weed today?

"take" your weed? "Take"?

Come on, Lori.

[Lorizael]

It's a thread about medicine. Seemed fitting.

[self biased]

I paid for medical care with cash today. 5 twenties
also **** i have appendicitis

look, these excuses as to why you're so far behind on the dead thread are getting less and less believable.

[Hauldren Collider]

Reg is currently under general anesthesia. Mom is driving up to Rochester at the moment. I believe the surgery started at 9:30.

So **** off SB.

[Guynemer]

We jerk each other's chains on here so often, I honestly can't tell if you are for real or not. If so, I wish him all the best.

[Hauldren Collider]

He is in fact currently in the hospital.

If so, I wish him all the best.

Thanks.

[Guynemer]

Pulling for you, reg.