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TANSTAFBC: There Ain't No Such Thing As Free Birth Control

Ladies (and girls), get in line for your latest government handout — free birth control pills! And breast pumps and condoms and pap smears and of course the "morning after" pill.

The new guidelines, which the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) labeled "historic," will require new health insurance plans to include women's preventive services including FDA approved contraceptives, breast feeding support, and well-women visits — all without charging a co-payment, co-insurance or a deductible — beginning August 1, 2012.

Free stuff! From Barry and the Democrats! Vote for them!

But of course "free stuff" is not actually free. Somebody's gotta pay. And that somebody is Maggie. She's not pleased.

I learned today that I am forced to pay for your birth control and your morning-after, or a-few-days-later, abortion. Condoms included. It will all be "free" to you, because Obama said so. I'll pay for your breast pump and other breast feeding "supports." If I'm sounding bitter, I guess I shouldn't. "These historic guidelines are based on science and existing literature." Nevermind. I'm. Still. Bitter. No copays. Complete coverage. You still have time to run out and buy your condoms. Coverage starts today. There's about 4 hours left to do what you're going to do and bill it to me. Go on now. Ron Burgundy is waiting.

Yup, the bottom line is buried in the various news reports:

Of course, insurers are likely to pass the cost of free screenings to their customers through higher premiums.

Proving once again that ObamaCare won't save us money. It's more socialist cost-shifting, because according to HHS, "currently, nearly one in three women finds it difficult to pay for birth control."

Really? Maggie's not convinced, and she's on a roll:

How many of you who cannot afford your own "birth control" smoke and/or drink, have cell phones, and autos, eat lunch out, have tattoos and pierced ears, get a mani-pedi to boost your spirits, and have more than one television set? When you go out to party it's only on Ladies Free Night…right? You don't ever buy romance novels, or tabloid rags at the Super Market…right? And of course, you're not paying any income tax — so I pay that for you as well. And what's wrong with your man? He can't provide for you? Oh, I see…you don't know where to find him?…don't remember his name…never knew his name? Or how about that hubby or live-in? Bet he drinks his weight in beer. And smokes. Eats pork rinds by the gross.

C'mon Maggie, you're eviscerating feminist dogma here! Women have just as much right to cat around as men! So long as someone else pays for it. We can't have the little dears depleting their pin money, can we?

The important thing is that the government cares about women's health. They really do! They're like the Hallmark of health care — they care enough to make you pay for the very best. For someone else.

I think we're supposed to be grateful for their benevolence. It says so on page 1933 of the Affordable Care Act, right under the Pledge of Allegiance to the spirit of FDR that all our kids will be forced to learn in school in order to receive their daily allocation of government cheese.

TANSTAFBC, so BOHICA!

UPDATE 03 Aug 2011 09:33:
Linked by Gator Doug, who has the scoop on a sure-fire zero-cost alternative to birth control pills.

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