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Free birth control saves lives and saves taxpayers money in the long run.
Progress. Republicans, keep your hands off of birth control and women's services, embrace prevention.
"Free" sterilizations would work at about 100% and be cheaper in the long run. Instead of doing something half-assed, why not just cut to the chase?
If they can't afford a few bucks a month or drag their asses to Planned Parenthood for birth control, can they afford to have kids?"Free" sterilizations would work at about 100% and be cheaper in the long run. Instead of doing something half-assed, why not just cut to the chase?
What about women who want kids some day, just not right now?
Free? No such thing.
Who pays for it?
When state lawmakers passed a two-year budget in 2011 that moved $73 million from family planning services to other programs, the goal was largely political: halt the flow of taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood clinics.
Now they are facing the policy implications and, in some cases, reconsidering.
The latest Health and Human Services Commission projections being circulated among Texas lawmakers indicate that during the 2014-15 biennium, poor women will deliver an estimated 23,760 more babies than they would have, as a result of their reduced access to state-subsidized birth control. The additional cost to taxpayers is expected to be as much as $273 million $103 million to $108 million to the states general revenue budget alone and the bulk of it is the cost of caring for those infants under Medicaid.
Abortions drop about 100% when same sex couples tie the knot. Maybe that's the solution.
Free birth control saves lives and saves taxpayers money in the long run.
Free birth control saves lives and saves taxpayers money in the long run.
It's funny how the 'fiscally conservative' party doesn't get this.
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This is essentially the strategy behind Value Based Insurance Design (VBID): University of Michigan - Center for Value-Based Insurance Design
Studies are making it quite clear that when a patient is given (1) no-cost access to a needed drug, and (2) basic education on their condition, they are far, far more likely to take the drug and take it properly. And, since they are taking the drug properly, both emergency room visits and hospital admissions drop dramatically, saving insurance companies significant costs in the mid-term and long-term.
Dubious "morality" aside, it is becoming obvious that if we deal with issues early and effectively, we all save money on health care costs. That's why VBID, universal preventive and universal diagnostic services would not only make for a healthier populace, they would save insurance companies, the government, and its citizens real dollars -- and personally, I like saving real dollars.
But, since health care is now a political issue, we can pretty much forget about straightforward logic like that.
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This is essentially the strategy behind Value Based Insurance Design (VBID): University of Michigan - Center for Value-Based Insurance Design
Studies are making it quite clear that when a patient is given (1) no-cost access to a needed drug, and (2) basic education on their condition, they are far, far more likely to take the drug and take it properly. And, since they are taking the drug properly, both emergency room visits and hospital admissions drop dramatically, saving insurance companies significant costs in the mid-term and long-term.
Dubious "morality" aside, it is becoming obvious that if we deal with issues early and effectively, we all save money on health care costs. That's why VBID, universal preventive and universal diagnostic services would not only make for a healthier populace, they would save insurance companies, the government, and its citizens real dollars -- and personally, I like saving real dollars.
But, since health care is now a political issue, we can pretty much forget about straightforward logic like that.
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There you go again Mac. Injecting good ole common sense and pragmatism into a sceniaro that is designed to bring out the crazy in the crazies.
Way to go Mac. You can't be stopping pregnancies with free contraceptives. Why, that would reduce the number of unwanted children which would reduce the welfare roles which would reduce the welfare costs which would then take away the reason for many rethugs existance. To bitch about poor people with kids. From what I can tell anyway.
There isn't an issue out there on which Mac won't argue both sides.
LOL
You voted for a POTUS who would end any such silly gubmint funding, didn't you?
There isn't an issue out there on which Mac won't argue both sides.
LOL
You voted for a POTUS who would end any such silly gubmint funding, didn't you?
... he says, proving my point and illustrating my sig...
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There isn't an issue out there on which Mac won't argue both sides.
LOL
You voted for a POTUS who would end any such silly gubmint funding, didn't you?
... he says, proving my point and illustrating my sig...
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I notice you ducked the question. LOL
... he says, proving my point and illustrating my sig...
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I notice you ducked the question. LOL
I voted for Johnson, and I've told you multiple times precisely why.
Somehow you keep forgetting, I wonder why.
Okay, no I don't wonder why.
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Free? No such thing.
Who pays for it?
