Valerie
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For example, a woman who wanted to prevent pregnancy would not be allowed health insurance coverage for oral contraceptives or a tubal ligation, a surgical procedure in which a woman's fallopian tubes are blocked, tied, or cut to permanently prevent pregnancy.
However, the bill does provide that a woman with endometriosis, which causes pain, irregular bleeding and infertility, could be treated using oral contraceptives, but she would have to first submit a claim to her employer providing evidence of the medical condition. If the employer decided to cover the oral contraceptive for medical reasons and not pregnancy prevention, the woman would be charged an administrative fee.
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It is no employer's business to be privy to the private lives of their employees in this manner.
Employers can decide what type of coverage they wish to provide as an employment benefit (for example not paying for contraception coverage if it violates their religious views), however I do agree with you that it is not the employers business what goes on between me and my doctor, just like its not the govt's business either (obamacare).
Just goes to show the health insurance mandate is a slippery slope which goes against the best interest of individual freedom... Let's insist on access to affordable health insurance entirely independent of employment!
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