Jeanne Pinder
(Updated 2022) A roundup of opinions from the Web on the HHS ruling that insurers must cover birth control: Planned Parenthood’s Bollywood video: The Planned Parenthood video supporting the HHS decision has gone viral. Steven Colbert objects to objections: The birth-control decision is the end to humanity as we know it. And what […]
Jeanne Pinder
Do you buy your BC abroad?
We have started to gather stories from patients who are un- and under-insured. Oddly enough, we heard more than one about women buying their birth control overseas. Read on to hear stories from women who have bough BC in places from Bangkok to France.
Jeanne Pinder
(Updated 2022) A friend who contributed to the Price of Birth Control map — our legacy project crowdsourcing the changing cost of birth control, in partnership with WNYC — followed up with this email: “I wanted to add a couple things that wouldn’t fit on the form. I’ve just recently been having some drama around […]
Lisa Riordan Seville
(Updated 2022) Here at ClearHealthCosts, we do a lot of thinking about the price tag that comes along with health care. For women, birth control is a big part of that. About 37.2 million women between the ages of 15 and 44 practice some kind of contraception, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Around 28 percent them, […]
Jeanne Pinder
(Updated 2022) The cost of contraceptives has been top-of-mind lately for us. Women all over the country anxiously await a policy decision as to whether they can get their birth control covered. This is in the morning’s news: “A leading medical advisory panel recommended on Tuesday that all insurers be required to cover contraceptives for women […]
Jeanne Pinder
“For millions of American women, birth control is beyond their reach,” writes Debra Marcus, chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of South Central New York. “For uninsured women, out-of-pocket costs are prohibitive; even for women with health insurance, related co-payments are often unaffordable. More than a third of women have struggled with the cost of […]
