"U.S. health insurance companies must offer women free birth control and other preventive health care services under rules released on Monday... The health department's guidelines followed the IOM's recommendations to require free screening for gestational diabetes, testing for human papillomavirus in women over 30, counseling for HIV and sexually transmitted infections, lactation counseling, screening for domestic violence and yearly wellness visits." - Yahoo News
Monday, August 1, 2011
A New Right to Free Birth Control
This is huge, HUGE news. As of August 2012, all American women will have the preventive care and birth control that they need and deserve. The world of healthcare and insurance coverage can look awfully bleak at times, but this time we get to rise up and cheer!
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Sarah Hays Coomer
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Great news! I wonder if this new policy has anything to do with the stripping down of Planned Parenthood this past shameless year? We'll give you birth control and preventive health care if you defund abortion clinics NOW. Mere speculation on my part, but what I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall of one of those backdoor Obama deals. Tim Brown
ReplyDeleteWell... I suppose that could be. I'd like to celebrate it as a victory, though there are certainly other disappointments. It's a big win!
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