Use A Condom -- Go To Hell

I, for one, am at a pretty low risk for breast cancer, and I'm tired of having to pay for mammograms.

 

We're missing the central part of this discussion as regards health care and its costs. Condoms may or may not be the most effective means of birth control. They certainly are one of the most effective means of STD prevention. And our transmission rates for STDs of all kinds in this country are soaring, especially among young people, because preaching abstinence without teaching common sense disease-prevention doesn't work.

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) remain a major public health challenge in the United States. While substantial progress has been made in preventing, diagnosing, and treating certain STDs in recent years, CDC estimates that 19 million new infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24.1 In addition to the physical and psychological consequences of STDs, these diseases also exact a tremendous economic toll. Direct medical costs associated with STDs in the United States are estimated at up to $14.1 billion annually.

http://www.cdc.gov/std/stats/trends2005.htm

 

Cancer is life-threatening.

Getting knocked up, or not? Kind of different.

Hey, I have no problem with people using condoms, pills, shots to avoid getting pregnant. Should it be mandated that it's included in a health plan? No.

 

Are you suggesting that federal workers aren't taxed?

 

Mine are free. F. R. E. E.

 

Sure, but should insurers be on the hook for picking up some of these costs?

If you don't have sex, well, you're not gonna die. Maybe some kittens will, but they are just kittens.

Paying for contraception should be like paying for plastic surgery: your insurer doesn't pick up a dime of it.

 

You know, women don't always feel that they have a choice about whether or not to have sex with their partners.

And it's a hell of a lot more expensive for the insurance company to pay for my pregnancy than to pay for my birth control. Not to mention that every insurance plan I've been a part of has covered Viagra.

 

Perhaps Ms. Orr just prefers riding bareback...

 

Top five ways the GOP suggests you prevent pregnancy (if you must) without contraception:

1. Sex in hot tubs
2. Concentrating really hard
3. Greek Love (not licensed in all states)
4. Wide stance
5. Mutual hostility, followed by years of silence

 

You wanna pay for vasectomies and tubal ligations, that's your business.