House Budget Chair: Republicans Wont Replace Obamacare Birth Control Benefit

[Jimbo101]

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As congressional Republicans falter in their plans to unravel the Affordable Care Act (ACA), they have no intention of replacing one of its signature and most popular provisions: the birth control benefit.

“That is not part of our program,” Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) told reporters Thursday at a Capitol Hill press conference when pressed about what would happen to the requirement for employer-sponsored health insurance plans to cover contraception as preventive care with no additional co-pay.

As interim chair of the House Budget Committee, Black stands to wield significant influence in the GOP’s one-two punch to repeal the ACA, also known as Obamacare, and defund Planned Parenthood. Black took over the position from Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), an anti-choice leader who believes “there’s not one” woman who can’t afford birth control. Price is awaiting Senate confirmation to helm the Trump administration’s U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Affordable contraceptives lead to fewer unintended pregnancies and abortions. But Black was either unwilling or unable to make the connection.

[Cal Carpenter]

1. Those medicines are also used for many other conditions and problems

Not that they should need to be in order to be considered for coverage as a matter of course, but it isn't just about birth control for many girls and women who take them.

[sheshe2]

2. All of what you said. I agree.

Also...Taking birth control away tells me one thing. They want breeders.

[napi21]

3. I sure hope they're going to retract coverage of Viagra too! After all, the woman may not NEED BC

meds ,at least in some cases, if Viagra wasn't available!

[kacekwl]

4. What better way to reduce abortions.

Idiots.

[ecstatic]

5. My IUD would have costed over $1k. I paid $0. Needless to say, I won't be

removing it anytime soon. No hormones, 10-12 years protection but a few drawbacks. (ParaGard)