Birth Control Costs

I have a friend who sent me her comments concerning testimony of a woman law student before a Congressional Committee concerning taxpayer financial support for birth control. Rush Limbaugh has also commented on this during one of his radio broadcasts. Read the comments of my friend at the bottom and then read my comments at the top.

 

    I checked the Internet for price of high quality condoms. $19.52 for a 24-pack. Let's say $1 each. To use up $2000 worth of condoms in a year, Ms. Fluke would need to have coitus more than 5 times per day each day for the year.

    Prices on birth control pills vary all over the lot. Most quotes are on a monthly basis. They range from $9 to $84 per month. On an annual basis, that's $108 to $1008. Notice that it's a far cry from $2000.

    An intrauterine device costs $175-$400, which includes the initial doctor visit, the device, and a 3-month doctor follow-up. It has a 5-year life. Note that cost is a lot less than $2000.

    If Ms. Fluke really wants to cut her birth control costs, she can buy one 24-pack of condoms for about $24. She can use 2/month by washing and drying the condom after each coitus. Fifteen days on each condom will not damage it, but she can start a new one after the 15-day period to be safe. In that way, she can have birth control for $24 per year, not $2000.

    It seems to me that if law student Ms. Fluke can't figure these things out for herself, our society is already in deep trouble.

 

 

 

  -----Original Message-----
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 12:37 PM
To: Arthur Sucsy
Subject: I have a question
The news showed a Georgetown law student who thinks we need to buy her $2000 worth of contraceptive pills each year, per Obama's new Free Pill Law.

I think those pills have affected her brain.(no worse than Global Warming and CO2) and boy what a lawyer she will make.
I had just recieved a Natural Health Letter in which it suggested men sould not drink tap water because our water systems cannot clean up estrogen from tap water and it is getting more and more contaminated from the chemicals we consume and excrete.  It is connected to an increase in Prostate cancer.  At the same time I read (in C&E News)about the Garter snakes.  Male snakes flock a female in heat.  When the same substances the female produces was introduces into a male snake other males flocked to him.  It is possible our estrogen contaminated water can explain the increase in homosexuals too, they can't tell the difference and this must be somewhat mental too.  Free contraceptives will increase the hormones in our water supply.    I think Obama needs a Biology and Chemistry lesson.  If he is the Environmentalist he claims to be, raising gas prices etc, because of CO2, he sould investigate his free Contraceptive Pill Law and withdraw it.
Am I loosing it?