Twenty-eight states already require insurers to cover contraceptives

[Emit]

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Who will be covered for contraceptives without co-payments?

The package of women’s preventive care benefits must be offered in all new insurance policies sold to individuals and employers starting Aug. 1, as well as in most policies that renew afterwards on the date that they renew. There is an exception for insurance provided by certain nonprofit religious employers who object to birth control.

Twenty-eight states already require insurers to cover contraceptives, although large, self-insured employers are generally exempted from state rules. But a 2010 Kaiser Family Foundation/HRET survey of employers found that 85 percent of large firms offered prescription contraceptives in their plans, although they often required a patient co-pay or deductible. (KHN is a program of the foundation)

As for the types of procedures covered, the IOM cites a 2011 Bureau of Labor Statistics analysis of 3,900 employer plans, which found that policy documents representing about 70 percent of participants did not mention sterilization. But when sterilization services were mentioned, nearly 90 percent of the policies covered both female and male surgical sterilization procedures.

http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/02/10554349-5-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-birth-control-mandate

Obama noted that in his speech the other day.

Also, notice the words above 'sold to' - as in, not tax-payer funded, but sold to individuals and insurance companies. Ha! As I was telling my right wing father today, "This isn't socialized medicine, Dad! "You mean the Romney care?" he asked. Wait, what? Whatever. "Despite what I wanted, this isn't Medicare for all."

His email to me earlier in the day read:

i agree that limbaugh should not have called the young lady those names. however i think she should pay for her own contraceptions. not with my taxpayer monies

"Dad, you really need to stop depending on Fox News and Rush Limbaugh for your 'news,'" I replied.

Now, that being said, I am sure that since the health care law expands Medicaid to millions of low-income Americans and provides sliding-scale subsidies to make insurance premiums affordable, it is likely that tax payer funding will go toward some women's contraception. However, certainly not to the degree that the right wing is claiming and that M$M continues to ignore.