Mine actually hasn't gone up at all...it's still $15 with the rest of it covered by in insurance plan....

It's unfortunate that the government is doing this though. Although, I will state that before I went on the pill my boyfriend always paid for condoms etc...which are actually more expensive in retrospect than the $15 a month I now spend.

Every College campus I've visited has had a health clinic that hands out free condoms,although I suppose using both condoms (which college students should be doing anyway) and hormonal birth control does allow for a certain amount of 'backup' should one or the other fail. On the other hand, I'm sure the parties responsible for gutting our public health care systems would like to see the free distribution of condoms done away with as well.

You are such a fucking one trick pony.

Is that what you want me to tell you?

Are condoms not a birth control expense that guys are usually landed with?
While I'm sure the price of those hasn't gone up they are nonetheless something which health insurance doesn't cover and neither does any other health service.

Anyway, it just means more soliders for future wars!

There's always free condoms to be had on a college campus. Always. Go to the university's student health center and ask for them.

Of course, that takes away the sexiness of being a martyr, but you can't have everything you want in life.

Yea! She should write newswire articles about a wide array of topics, like you do.

I am in college. But I have not noticed that the cost of my birth control's gone way up. In fact, I haven't even noticed that I have birth control.

Not always.

the Government needs more BABIES!! Do your duty!!!

They haven't gone up at my pharmacy. And people tend to complain loudly about the cost of drugs, esp when they go up.

If I remember correctly there was some sort of study that said that women by more condoms than men. Anyone else heard of this?

When I was on bc I only paid 3 bucks for it, but I am also a depedent of an active duty member of the Military. Also you can get reduced rate bc at any health dept. even if you have insurance, on medicaid or not. And in some states if you are under age you can get it for free and confidential there as well.

This is part of the " War On Women" ?

Gawd, ain't it the truth? It's always up to someone else to take care of me.

There's other much more natural ways to prevent pregnancy besides becoming a ward of big pharma. Like condoms. Like oral sex and mutual masturbation. Like not fucking when you're ovulating.

Joe Organic has spoken.

if it were anybody but Bush, i'd say you were grasping at straws. because it's Bush, though, i'd say there's at least a decent likelihood of an agenda, or at least a lack of concern for the impact on certain sectors. even there, though, i wouldn't call it discrimination against women, per se, just a discrimination against those whose lifestyle choices require them to purchase birth control pills. in other words, Bush doesn't hate you because you have teh vagynas, he hates you because you're using it and you're not married.

war on women, seriously? ok, i know you're not serious and you're just trollling, but i'll go ahead anyway.

i think the clue there is the "didn't forsee" part. i know this administration manages to be perfectly good at maintaining a war overseas without any evidence of planning, but all they did was take money from anywhere they thought people wouldn't notice to fund the actual war. this has had an unforeseeable effect on one thing that effects women slightly more than men ('cause when they get knocked up 'cause they felt like chancing it then it's everyone's problem) and that's an incredibly long way from having a woman hating agenda of rage.