The Wall Street Journal has noted that the Trump administration has taken regulatory action to reduce, if not eliminate (the Supreme Court still has to do its job vis-à-vis a Little Sisters of the Poor case, as does Congress legislatively, contra a short handful of Republicans who prefer Obamacare intact over any step toward getting rid of it), the requirement that health plan providers provide contraception to women at no cost to those women coverees and do so regardless of any question of conscience or religious tenet.
Naturally, Progressive-Democrats and the Left generally have their collective panties in a wedgie over that. However, they carefully ignore certain inconvenient facts.
One inconvenience is the actual cost of contraception—to the user, not the rest of us who must pay for these “free” items. Contraceptive pills can be had at places like Walmart for $9/mo, vaginal contraceptives are cheaper, condoms (don’t men have a role here, too?) are $6.50 the dozen. These are not prices that will shatter anyone’s piggy bank.
Contraceptives are used to treat medical conditions, and they can be terribly expensive? That’s the other inconvenience. No they aren’t; those aren’t contraceptives. They’re medications used for treating a medical condition; they happen to have a (if not the) major side effect of being anti-conceiving. Insurance plans already covered such meds, and Obamacare could have, too, but the Progressive-Democratic Party eschewed that when they rammed through Obamacare.
In the end, there’s no reason anyone should pay for contraceptives other than the users. Full stop.
