Re: Lunelle/contraception coverage

From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Tue Jan 30 06:26:44 2001

Joanne -

here's a somewhat diff take - since most folks receive insurance thru employment - suggest that the women and their spouses, so's, etc bring their collective pressure together on employers to consider these issues in choosing insurance coverage choices for employees. legislation is a very inefficient mechanism for dealing with these issues.

now catastrophic coverage for all americans - that's a whole diff kettle of fish.

art

just my opinion - i could be wrong.

At Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Joanne Bulley wrote: >
>It's not the Constitution - it is the fairness of the refusal to cover
>contraceptives as a class of drugs in an insurance policy. All states
>have regulations covering insurance companies, therefore one uses the
>state legislature to approach this issue. Until and unless
>contraceptives are over the counter (my preference), it is my opinion
>that this exclusion denies women coverage of their primary medical need.
>HMO's tend to cover them because they seem to have recognized that it is
>much less expensive to cover contraception than it is to cover
>pregnancy, delivery and health care of the child who grows into another
>adult.
>
>Joanne
>
>At Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Robert J. Woolley wrote:
>>
>>Why is it any of Congress's business whether private insurance companies provide
>>contraceptive benefits or not? Did I overlook the clause in the Constitution,
>>where it's enumerating the only powers Congress has, that mentions that Congress
>>may specify what items private health insurance covers?
>>
>----------------
>>Bob Woolley
>----------------
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art fougner, md


A series of 1000 cases begins with but a single anecdote.



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