House Members Want Birth Control Provision in War Funding Bill

[babylonsister]

House Members Want Birth Control Provision in War Funding Bill


More than 100 House members are urging congressional leaders to include language in a war spending bill to reverse the rising costs of birth control drugs and devices at health centers serving low-income women, including college students.

A Senate-passed supplemental spending bill includes a provision intended to accomplish that, and a bipartisan group of lawmakers wrote to the Democratic and Republican leaders in each chamber to preserve the Senate language in the final version of the legislation.

A 2006 budget law created a disincentive for drug manufacturers to offer reduced-cost birth control drugs and devices to some health centers by removing university clinics and private birth control providers from the list of entities eligible for “nominal” pricing under the Public Health Service Act.

College newspapers have reported that the monthly cost of birth control on campuses has increased from as little as $5 to as much as $50.

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http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=cqmidday-000002893723

[truedelphi]

1. Wow It is refreshing to find out that we are using their tactics against them

To promote our causes!!

[NC_Nurse]

2. Good. That should be a given. I'm sick of women's health issues getting

shelved or diminished in order to pay for military budgets. :(