Derideo_Te
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Riiiight. Because their premiums and co-pays cover the entire expense of what they subsequently use in medical care, ALWAYS. And that's assuming we're talking about women with health insurance rather than Medicaid in the first place.
And naturally, you desperately want to focus only on the finances to avoid the REAL question at issue.
The odds of a single (pregnant)woman not being on Medicaid is slim to none.
Very true. While there certainly are many single career women out there with health insurance, they also are quite likely to be conscientous about birth control as well. Although obviously, no birth control is perfect, and shit does often happen.
Most career women are driven and usually have goals and timelines that include a plan for family. While accidents happen obviously... this type of woman is probably less likely to take risks.
But working in healthcare I can tell you... The majority of the babies that are born are to single mothers on Medicaid... sad but true.
That was true before Obamacare made contraception readily available. Studies are already showing that there is a drop in births amongst low income women who would be the ones primarily on Medicaid.
Of course another solution is to eliminate the wage disparity in which case these women would be able to afford healthcare and not have to rely on Medicare. But that is a problem for the next Administration to tackle.
I take it you are referring to the simulated bc study performed in one state by planned parenthood and not actual Obamacare related figures?
Nope!
I am referring to actual hands on studies in two states and the long term statistics from the Guttmacher Institute.
Want to reduce teen pregnancy and abortion Start with long-term birth control. - The Washington Post
Unintended Pregnancy in the United States
Preventing Unintended Pregnancy
• Two-thirds (68%) of U.S. women at risk for unintended pregnancy use contraception consistently and correctly throughout the course of any given year; these women account for only 5% of all unintended pregnancies. In contrast, the 18% of women at risk who use contraception inconsistently or incorrectly account for 41% of all unintended pregnancies. The 14% of women at risk who do not practice contraception at all or who have gaps of a month or more during the year account for 54% of all unintended pregnancies (see graph).[14]
• Publicly funded family planning services help women avoid pregnancies they do not want and plan pregnancies they do want. In 2010, these services helped women avoid 2.2 million unintended pregnancies, which would likely have resulted in about 1.1 million unintended births and 760,000 abortions.[15]