Sex strike for birth control

[tactful]

I don't understand how pillows can help...

I believe it's the construction, be it feathers or sponge rubber, not really sure, fascinating to watch though.

 

[Ham Murabi]

The fact that buying an individual plan is prohibitively expensive prohibits her from buying it. The reason student health insurance is affordable to students is because 1) it's a group rate with a very large group, and 2) the cost of the plan is subsidized by the school.

On Aetna.com I just got a quote for a single 30 year-old woman with no dependents at the $1900 price point (which is the price of Fluke's Georgetown health insurance plan). The closest one is their PPO 5000 for $1,956 per year. Terms:



Let's compare that to the Georgetown student health insurance plan, which is $56 cheaper (I'm not mentioning a few items which are identical in both plans but if you care you can look them up).




The Aetna plan that's most comparable to Fluke's student health insurance is their most expensive option, the PPO 1500. But the premium on that is $3,276 per year and it still has worse coverage than the student plan.

So as you see, Sandra Fluke cannot just buy a plan off the market in order to obtain birth control coverage because doing so would mean paying a difference that's greater than just paying for her birth control out of pocket.

Then I guess she'll just have to buy her birth control. Break out the violins.

 

[mercury14]

Then I guess she'll just have to buy her birth control. Break out the violins.

No actually Georgetown has to cover it now. Not really much of a newsie are you?

 

[semen4her]

Lit women, stand up (don't lay down) for your rights! Don't fuck so everyone knows you are ready to fight! Read on:

Feminists are declaring a sex strike for Obamacare-subsidized birth control. The group Liberal Ladies Who Lunch is organizing 'Access Denied,' a week-long exercise in self-denial starting April 28.

The strike is supposed to motivate men to stand up for government-funded birth control "because when we lose our reproductive choices, so do they."

A week of self denial?

Half my life has been in self denial.

 

[Ham Murabi]

No actually Georgetown has to cover it now. Not really much of a newsie are you?

So they did repeal the First Amendment. You go girl!

 

[mercury14]

So they did repeal the First Amendment. You go girl!

There's nothing in Catholic doctrine about entering into the insurance marketplace, therefore their religion is not being impacted. You're trying to make the argument that anything religious groups do is protected religious activity... It's a stupid argument.

Likewise when the Catholic Church engages in real estate transactions it has to follow every regulation just like everyone else.