Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. College health centers to charge more for birth control
Misogynists are smiling everywhere hoping those college 'girls' are getting pregnant.
Facing steep increases in the price of birth control, many Houston-area college students are weighing whether to shell out several hundred more dollars each year, switch medications or just go without oral contraceptives.Republicans favored cronies over the health of college students. We've already seen Republicans favor cronies and their over sized egos over the health of our soldiers.
Prices have tripled at universities around the country, including Houston, because of a change in the Medicaid rebate law that discourages pharmaceutical companies from offering big discounts on medications to college health centers.
Starting last week, the most popular oral contraceptive at the University of Houston's health center, Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo, sold for $35 for a monthly pack, compared with the previous $10.
posted by CouldBeTrue @ 8:16 AM
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The appalling part is there's no reason generic birth control pills should cost $10 a month, let alone three times that - $1 a pill. The patents expired a generation ago.
It's simply a sin tax, with the pharmaceutical companies profiting at the expense of young/poor women.
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