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    Marzipan in your Pie PlateStassa Edwards
    3/29/16 6:44pm

    Do you know what would be awesome? If we completely divorced health care from the employer/employee relationship. We could have some sort of, I don’t know, single payer system or something.

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      Slay.douché - (dreams to be a puppy)Marzipan in your Pie Plate
      3/29/16 7:07pm

      YES

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      Erik LonnrotMarzipan in your Pie Plate
      3/29/16 7:09pm

      Even in Canada contraception is not necessarily covered. My extended health (through employer) covers it saving my family a few hundred dollars a year over what we would pay with just the general public coverage.

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    FieryAntidoteStassa Edwards
    3/29/16 6:46pm

    This makes me think that the justices don’t understand how insurance works. Full stop. You don’t buy insurance for specific medicines and condition. There is no “diabetes insurance” that you specifically buy on the marketplace when you need insulin. You buy comprehensive insurance and the company is gambling that more people won’t need medical care than will. That’s how they make money.

    Insurance companies WANT women to have contraception because it is a whole lot cheaper than the cost of pregnancy. There is no economic incentive for an insurance company that is not insuring a woman for other health conditions to separately sell her insurance for birth control. They aren’t paying for her potential pregnancy, so why do they want her to have the pill? And how would that even work? You can’t pay “insurance” on a medicine that you have to take anyways. You can’t buy “insulin insurance” when you are diagnosed with diabetes.

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      Andrew DaisukeFieryAntidote
      3/29/16 6:49pm

      I imagine there’s a LOT of things that people with that kind of money don’t understand.

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      Tequila MockingbirdFieryAntidote
      3/29/16 6:50pm

      I KNOW. IT MAKES ME NUTS.

      Insurance is a RISK POOL. There is no risk in providing a woman something she needs every month. You don’t sign up for insurance and the insurance company gives you free shit because they’re nice people. YOU PAY THEM TO SPREAD THE RISK AROUND AMONG A BIG GROUP OF PEOPLE, something you have no way of doing on your own. GAH.

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    deerlady83Stassa Edwards
    3/29/16 6:39pm
    GIF

    This is why we don't want vacancies on the court.

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      AnnieW50deerlady83
      3/29/16 6:55pm

      The vacancy is better then what we had. My bet is Scalia would have purposely misunderstood how insurance works, too.

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      comeonpoppetAnnieW50
      3/29/16 7:10pm

      My bet? He would have understood it, argued the exception perfectly and succinctly and this case would been over today. He wasn’t stupid and he wasn’t out of touch, but he was smart as hell and deviously clever in his opinions.

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    PumpkinSpiesStassa Edwards
    3/29/16 7:01pm

    In addition to understanding how insurance works, I’d also like them to understand that bc can be used as MEDICINE and not just slut pills. Women can be prescribed them for a variety of reasons. 💊

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      Mental Iceberg's BurnerPumpkinSpies
      3/29/16 7:05pm

      Thank you!

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      I'm Fart and I'm SmunnyPumpkinSpies
      3/29/16 7:10pm

      I take my slut pills because I had cramps that were so bad I would just be in the fetal position for 2 days straight. My mom had to take slut pills at 5o because she had an ovarian cyst rupture. My cousin had to take slut pills because she inexplicably fainted a lot and the slut pills have made it so she doesn’t faint anymore. There are so many reasons a woman would want/need to take slut pills.

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    CaliforlifeStassa Edwards
    3/29/16 7:33pm

    You know... I may be reaching here... but these men do a lot of brain gymnastics to find a way to deny shit to women. A fucking PILL (or other forms) causes the white powerful men to lose their shit and take this all the way to the supreme court (over and over forever) just because they don’t want a woman to walk into a pharmacy, etc., and buy it because that means those women are having sex and sex is evil and dirty and vaginas are evil and dirty so get out of my way while I buy my condoms and dick hardening agents and blue pills that I use so I can put my boner in one of those dirty vaginas that should be illegal. What the everloving fuck is wrong with those guys? I’ve posted this before ... why do white men hate (all) white women so dam much?!?

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      LovecrimesCaliforlife
      3/29/16 7:40pm

      Isn’t the common thread being conservative/republican? Progressive white men support access to birth control, bodily autonomy, etc.

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      missqueenbitchCaliforlife
      3/29/16 7:46pm

      After reading All The Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister I think she provides a pretty good argument for why this is an issue. It’s an issue for them because something like the pill changes the fabric of society too much for their liking because women aren’t dependent on men when they can’t get pregnant at any time or there are no societal ramifications (or at least not as significant ones) for women having sex on their own terms, and women having sexual agency and financial freedom is scary and threatens them.

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    KarenDelaneyWalkerStassa Edwards
    3/29/16 6:48pm

    This is how I picture the SCOTUS men asking questions on contraception:

    GIF
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      comeonpoppetKarenDelaneyWalker
      3/29/16 6:58pm

      Perfect gif is perfect, KDW.

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      Erik LonnrotKarenDelaneyWalker
      3/29/16 7:07pm

      You don’t even need to know anything about contraception other than that it is something with a regular, predictable cost. What they don’t understand is how insurance works. How does an insurance company make money off of something that they have to pay out every month?

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    Slay.douché - (dreams to be a puppy)Stassa Edwards
    3/29/16 7:06pm

    How about single-payer, *subsidized birth control for all*?
    Saving the nation trillions on unplanned pregnancies (and proving the model could work for the whole shebang).

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      accesscodeSlay.douché - (dreams to be a puppy)
      3/29/16 7:13pm

      If we all vote in the midterms, it might happen.

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      Slay.douché - (dreams to be a puppy)accesscode
      3/29/16 7:16pm

      We simply must.
      Here’s a link to 30 states with online voter registration.

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    zap rowsdowerStassa Edwards
    3/29/16 6:49pm

    seemed to think that insurance exchanges provided individual contraceptive coverage and that women could easily purchase an insurance plan that would only cover birth control.

    GIF
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      comeonpoppetzap rowsdower
      3/29/16 6:57pm

      Ivory towers collide with male privilege, and the rest of us:

      GIF
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      ImmortalAgneszap rowsdower
      3/29/16 7:26pm

      Pretty sure purchasing an insurance plan that only covers birth control = purchasing birth control out of pocket with a coupon from the interwebz.

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    llamaguyStassa Edwards
    3/29/16 7:01pm

    Contraceptive only insurance would cost... exactly as much as contraceptives cost without, or slightly more due to administrative costs. It’s basic actuarial math; you’ll only get it if you want contraceptives. So you’d basically be betting that you would remember to get your prescription every month (or make your IUD appt) but all you win is a low interest payment plan instead of paying at the pharmacy

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      BrightEyesllamaguy
      3/29/16 7:07pm

      Exactly. This isn’t health insurance in case shit happens. This is “insurance” where the use of said policy is a repeated and known certainty. It is mind boggling that somebody who made it to the Supreme Court bench can not distinguish the difference.

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    gramercypoliceStassa Edwards
    3/29/16 7:04pm

    A lot of judges and legislators are confused about everything.

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      Slay.douché - (dreams to be a puppy)gramercypolice
      3/29/16 7:08pm

      as said in a different thread:
      FUCK THEOCRATS - RIGHT THE HELL OUT OF OFFICE!

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      gramercypoliceSlay.douché - (dreams to be a puppy)
      3/29/16 7:16pm

      Don't you worry that would just create more theocrats?

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