Should Insurance Cover the Cost of Contraception?
Should Insurance Cover the Cost of Contraception?
Kristen Dahlgren reports on the issue of whether health insurance plans should pay for women's contraception.
Automatically Generated Transcript (may not be 100% accurate)
" At a time when some women are finding birth control too expensive for their budget a new recommendation could soon make --"
" We have people -- they're hard choices between. Paying for things that they know that the net definitely need and also not having the -- Cover other things that you like access to contraception."
" Doctor Willie Parker with Planned Parenthood says that can often -- unplanned pregnancy in women less likely to get prenatal care. We don't get a chance to detect. The complications of pregnancy. Like premature birth. -- after being asked by the government to wait isn't the independent institute of medicine now recommend contraception be considered a preventive service. With no co pay under the new healthcare law. And law already requires free preventive services like blood pressure checked but the idol and without you say what else women need. Among their recommendation. Screening projected -- diabetes HPV and HIV and counseling on at TD. But don't take issue with contraception and especially emergency contraception legs and -- are against that part of the recommendation."
" They're different groups of people who have either ethnic or moral. Objection to contraception and the of those groups that people shouldn't be mandated. Seeing -- pay. Through their insurance premiums for contraceptives for other people."
" Issued the two sides are unlikely to agree on Department of Health and Human Services. Make -- final decision."
" Screening and counseling for domestic violence there also recommended -- that require preventive service. The Department of Health and Human Services is expected to make a decision soon. Could end -- in NBC news Washington."
Related Content
Women, contraception, and a national fight over the issue that came out of nowhere on the political trail.
Video|Mon, 12 Mar 2012
|capitol hillfound at0:08
Birth Control Fight Continues into Super Tuesday
Women, contraception, and a national fight over the issue that came out of nowhere on the political trail.
Video|Mon, 12 Mar 2012
|birth controlfound at0:17
Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania is offering the Plan B morning-after birth control pill for sale from a vending machine in their on campus student health building.
Video|Wed, 29 Feb 2012
|vending machinefound at0:09
The fight between Republicans and the Obama administration on whether religious-affiliated institutions should cover birth control continues to rage in Washington.
Video|Wed, 29 Feb 2012
|capitol hillfound at1:21
The CDC recently released the latest statistics on new HIV cases in the United States between 2006-2009.
Video|Wed, 29 Feb 2012
Report on Contraception Battle
The chorus of voices against the White House grew louder today as Republican Senators took aim at the decision requiring Catholic institutions to include birth control in health insurance plans or be penalized for refusing.
Video|Wed, 29 Feb 2012
|white housefound at0:05, 1:39
Birth control pills do appear to help relieve the pain of menstrual cramps.
Video|Mon, 20 Feb 2012
|birth controlfound at0:11
High Schools Fight Back with Contraception
Some schools are attempting to fight sexually transmitted diseases with contraception.
Video|Mon, 20 Feb 2012
|sexually transmitted diseasesfound at0:25







