Whatever you claim your MessiahRushie's BEARD says, Sandra Fluke said that even though Georgetown's insurance is supposed to cover the pill for medical conditions they have figured out a way to prevent even that!She and all other Georgetown students get exactly what they pay for with their student policies. The policy DOES NOT cover for contraception. If she wants that coverage, she is free to buy supplemental coverage.
What is so difficult to understand?
Oh...The insured does not "pay insurance"....The insured pays a premium( fee) for insurance coverage which the client agreed to the coverage and it's terms, conditions and limits as well as deductibles.
according to the slut, Georgetown student insurance does cover in certain circumstance contraceptives, due to medical conditions.
From Fluke's testimony:
When this exception does exist, these exceptions dont accomplish their well-intended goals because when you let university administrators or other employers rather than women and their doctors dictate whose medical needs are legitimate and whose are not, womens health takes a back seat to a bureaucracy focused on policing her body.
In 65% of the cases at our school, our female students were interrogated by insurance representatives and university medical staff about why they needed prescription and whether they were lying about their symptoms.
For my friend and 20% of the women in her situation, she never got the insurance company to cover her prescription. Despite verifications of her illness from her doctor, her claim was denied repeatedly on the assumption that she really wanted birth control to prevent pregnancy. Shes gay. So clearly polycystic ovarian syndrome was a much more urgent concern than accidental pregnancy for her.
After months paying over $100 out-of-pocket, she just couldnt afford her medication anymore, and she had to stop taking it.
I learned about all of this when I walked out of a test and got a message from her that in the middle of the night in her final exam period shed been in the emergency room. Shed been there all night in just terrible, excruciating pain. She wrote to me, It was so painful Id woke up thinking Ive been shot.
Without her taking the birth control, a massive cyst the size of a tennis ball had grown on her ovary. She had to have surgery to remove her entire ovary as a result.
On the morning I was originally scheduled to give this testimony, she was sitting in a doctors office, trying to cope with the consequences of this medical catastrophe.
Since last years surgery, shes been experiencing night sweats and weight gain and other symptoms of early menopause as a result of the removal of her ovary. Shes 32-years-old.
As she put it, If my body indeed does enter early menopause, no fertility specialist in the world will be able to help me have my own children. I will have no choice at giving my mother her desperately desired grandbabies simply because the insurance policy that I paid for, totally unsubsidized by my school, wouldnt cover my prescription for birth control when I needed it.
Now, in addition to potentially facing the health complications that come with having menopause at such an early age increased risk of cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis she may never be able to conceive a child.
Some may say that my friends tragic story is rare. Its not. I wish it were
One woman told us doctors believe she has endometriosis, but that cant be proven without surgery. So the insurance has not been willing to cover her medication the contraception she needs to treat her endometriosis.
Recently, another woman told me that she also has polycystic ovarian syndrome and shes struggling to pay for her medication and is terrified to not have access to it.
Due to the barriers erected by Georgetowns policy, she hasnt been reimbursed for her medications since last August.
I sincerely pray that we dont have to wait until she loses an ovary or is diagnosed with cancer before her needs and the needs of all of these women are taken seriously.
These denials of contraceptive coverage impact real people. In the worst cases, women who need this medication for other medical reasons suffer dire consequences. A friend of mine, for example, has polycystic ovarian syndrome and has to take prescription birth control to stop cysts from growing on her ovaries. Her prescription is technically covered by Georgetown insurance because its not intended to prevent pregnancy.
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