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Re: Lunelle/contraception coverageFrom: Harrison Sheld (hsheldhsd@earthlink.net)Tue Jan 30 22:05:49 2001
Personal resources for health care are not limitless. Expanding coverage must be done with prudence and foresight. Hence the disdain for insurance companies to write coverage for experimental care. The more inclusive health insurance policies are made, the higher the premiums for all insureds. The higher the premiums, the less affordable health insurance becomes and the greater the pool of uninsureds becomes. That is when there will be a clamor for government intervention. Subsequently health insurance will be federalized. A review of correspondence on this website regarding the inefficiencies of government bureaucracy suggests government intervention is not in the long-term best interest of patients or physicians, nevermind tax payers. As I pointed out in an earlier post, contraceptives are readily available and affordable now through programs of states, counties and most municipalities. Clearly this is an issue best handled on the local level. From an economic view alone federal government intervention is an inefficent use of tax receipts. For example, if we assume that 72 cents of every tax dollar that is sent to Washington is used for administration (that is a commonly accepted fact), it would cost $100 tax dollars to buy a $28 pack of birth control pills. (Of course the government could get bids on OCs but then they would play a heavy hand in the pharmaceutical industry.) That not withstanding, there is a segment of the population that may need financial help. I could support a focused program that funds those in need, but not one which mandates universal coverage for the reasons stated. Joanne Bulley wrote:
> Yes - this is a multifaceted issue. The USA has the highest unintended
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