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Should health insurance providers be required to offer free birth control?

On August 1st, 2012 the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) required all health insurers and employers to cover the cost of contraceptives in their health insurance plans. The provision ecempted religious organizations and churches. In 2017 the Trump administration issued a rule that allowed a much broader set of employers to opt out of offering coverage for birth control, making moot a “workaround’’ designed by the Obama administration that allowed women in some cases to obtain coverage even if their employers had declined to offer it directly. In July…  

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 @ProudJew  from Tennessee  answered…8mos8MO

A sustainable solution for birth control access would be to offer it on a sliding scale based on income. If someone can't afford it, clinics and public health programs could provide it for free or at a low cost. This way, everyone gets access to what they need without forcing all insurance companies to cover it for free, while still respecting different beliefs. It feels like a balanced way to make sure people can get the care they need.

 @93VYYT9 from Iowa  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes but only before the women is pregnant and never during the pregnancy

 @929VBXN from Minnesota  answered…3yrs3Y

no because having sex is a choice, so if they want to have unprotected sex then thats their problem

 @923L8QB from Michigan  answered…3yrs3Y

no i only hit raw

 @8ZPR5PR from Illinois  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes but there should ways to measure and prevent abuse of this.

 @8ZP4GTZRepublican from Washington  answered…3yrs3Y

If birth control is cheaply made and there is lots of it, then yes, it can be offered but it shouldn't be forced and given to people.

 @8ZLD2XQ from New Jersey  answered…3yrs3Y

Don't really care about this.

 @8W9M3QSRepublican from California  answered…4yrs4Y

wear a condom

 @8TMX55PLibertarianfrom Maine  answered…4yrs4Y

No, the prices of birth control stuff should be regulated instead

 @8SD7V9J from Massachusetts  answered…4yrs4Y

No, the people having a sexual intercourse should be responsible for it.

 @8RMHPTY from Texas  answered…4yrs4Y

Is birth control to the point where it can be made expendable? What other opportunities are here? This question is loaded.

 @97DGCQ3 from Missouri  answered…3yrs3Y

No, that should be illegally

 @8YZL6X4 from New Jersey  answered…3yrs3Y

invade mexico

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