8/4/11
It’s Official: Your Insurance Provider Now Has to Cover Your Contraceptives

We reported last week that a leading U.S. medical advisory panel recommended that all insurers be required to cover contraceptives for women free of charge. Well, guess what? The Obama administration went for it! And we don’t mean the kind of “free” where you have to pay an annoying co-pay or other deductible. We mean 100% on the house. Let the celebratory protected boot-knocking begin! Insurance providers will be required to cover every single contraceptive method approved by the FDA, including sterilization procedures and… wait for it… emergency contraceptives including the Plan B pill. Halle-fucking-lujah.

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