The free market keeps all other forms of insurance cheaper, why wouldn't it keep health insurance cheaper? The only proven method to actually decrease the price of a product or service is competition. So what makes you think that competition for health insurance would raise prices?

It isn't just about kids. It's about protection from STDs as well.

Using condoms is absolutely a choice a man is involved in. I don't understand the line of thinking of those who think it's all a woman's decision.

A traditional relationship is the whole Working man, and the wife stays home with the kids, cleans the house, cooks. That kind of thing.

And Modern is the opposite. lol

Okay, I want some input on this idea.

We are discussing the Government mandating that insurance companies offer birth control pills.

How about decoupling Job and Insurance and allow us to buy it across state lines? Why is it that I have dozens of choices of car / home / boat / renters insurance, but no choices in medical insurance?

Shouldn't we be able to buy insurance to cover the things we want? Allowing women to get birth control pills will raise my premium too. Allowing men to get Viagra also effects my premium. I shouldn't have to pay for any product or service that I don't use.

Also, insurance prices (and healthcare prices) are effected by judgement amounts in lawsuits. Shouldn't we put a reasonable cap on damages?

So what I'm saying is this:

* Decouple Job and Insurance
* Allow Insurance to be purchased across state lines
* Ala Cart Insurance, customized to what the consumer wants.
* Cap in court damages

Again, both are needed to make a baby, so both should be taking the proper precautions if they don't want a baby. But if that flies with the women you're with, good for you.

Where was the outrage and phone call to Laura Ingraham when Ed Schultz called her a slut?
Oh wait Laura is a conservative talk show host so it's ok to demean her.

Unless you're unaware of how things work, you know that it does take two to make a baby. So why shouldn't both take responsibility? Besides, wouldn't preventing STDs be a good idea as well?

so true.but i need a child , a mother for child , a family , a caretaker n homemaker , love n comanion for lyfe.how else to get it.i m marrying simply a poor maid this time so that it is manageable n peaceful.

LOL, just remembered the saying 'No glove, NO LOVE'

from a woman of (very) modest means:

being an adult, and sexually active doesn`t give anyone the right to ask for free shi*. pardon my language.

i believe in responsibility and self-reliance. wtf happened to that brand of thinking?

Narrow minded focus often comes from those who hold a previous bias toward an issue and for those who do not consider the issure critically with a broad lenz.

The narrow mind assumes that birth control used by a woman benefits only the woman and because it's call birth control, it's assumed the woman is promiscuous.

How many women AND their monogamous partner have made that choice together - because they feel their financial situation is not stable enough to bring a child into? Why is that not considered responsible action?

BC is also used for hormonal value and there are many young girls that benefit greatly from this therapy, I did myself. But many parents cannot afford to pay, even a co-pay for medicine.

Responsible sex is not just something a woman needs to consider. Men can say - it's not my problem you got prenant, I'm outta here, because it's the kind of thinking that a lot of men have. The woman gets slammed both, because she didn't use birth control and because she wants to use birth control. MAKE UP YOUR F..NG MINE MEN.

BC is NEVER an issue for only a woman or only a man, there is much more to consider. Those who strongly oppose abortion must also consider that fewer would occur if (the more responsible party) which men seem to be claiming should be a woman, preempts the situation with birth control. But there still that narrow mindset that only women have illicit sex while men are some invisible second party to the act.

EDIT: Let's not forget that pregnancy can also be an accident due to the failure of BC of any kind. We cannot be the judge of such situations (as being an accident or not)and because all medical issues are a private matter - there should never be an unknown nosey party telling anyone that abortion should be illegal.

Abortion is either a legal medical procedure, subject to all the privacy laws over medical procedure, or it is something that is subject prdominantly to a male court review. Those should NEVER be the only two choices in a country that considers half the population (women) equal to the other half.

Actually, all men have to do is walk in a clinic and ask for prophylactics and they are handed to them for free. Women are handed a prescription for the pill no the pills themselves. Men do not have to prove income to ask for the contraception choice and are handed them for free. Women have to prove income to see the doctor and get the prescription that they have to pay for.

You those who can afford them pay for them and those can't have access.
Who's to say who can and can't afford them?
Doesn't planned parenthood offer free BC to those who can't afford them?