To uninformed flamer poster with the big screen TV solution to BC

Speaking of uninformed, there are 820 PP clinics and around 68 million women of child-bearing age in the US.  That works out to around 82,927 women per clinic.  Yeah, that'll work.  Access for those who live hundreds of miles from the nearest facility could prove problematic, dontcha think?  Of those, only a small percentage qualify for tiered cost programs.  Your assumption that PP can handle this all by its lonesome is ridiulous, particularly in view of the relentless partisan efforts to defund them, impede access to them, shut them down, vandalize them, burn them up, bomb them out of existence, and all the kidnappings, assaults, stalking, attempted murders and murders of their staff and patients. 

Your big screen TV analysis is completely irrelevant (the politest word that comes to mind at the moment).  More to the point, $3000 per year translates to $250 per month, similar to a car payment or monthly utility bill.  There is simply no justification for women who do not qualify for the tiered cost programs to potentially be forced to choose one over the other. 

I have to wonder.  How much effort are you exerting to miss the point here?  BC/HRT is an integral feature of women's health care before, during and after child-bearing years.  Medical uses include:

1)  ABORTION PREVENTION
2)  Acne and other oil-based skin blemishes with lowered risks of infection and abscess  3)  Irregular cycles due to low weight, stress, excessive exercise, or damage to the ovaries from radiation or chemotherapy
4)  Hypermenorrhea/menorrhagia
5)  Menstrual cramps
6)  Premenstrual syndrome
7)  Reduced fluid retention with pills containing drospirenone, a form of progestin 
8)  Polycystic ovary disease
9)  Endometriosis and its associated debilitating/disabling pain (as in cramps on steroids 24/7/365, the kind that double you over and put you to bed, yet prevent you from sleeping), something I have personally experienced.  Hormonal therapy can help postpone definitive surgical treatment of endometriosis for years, thus increasing the chances for some patients to conceive a pregnancy, should they CHOOSE to do so. 
10) Controlling anemia
11) Reducing the incidence of mega-painful ovarian cysts not associated with PCOS, that quite often require expensive surgical intervention and lead to lost work days.  For college students, missing final exams happens in the absence of treatment, something that Slush lies about, then equates to being paid for having sex.
12) Reducing risk of uterine (endometrial) and ovarian cancer….40 percent within years 1-5 and by a whopping 70% after 12 years of use.  

No teen or adult woman, married, single, divorced, gay, straight, bi or whatever should EVER be placed in the position to discuss these issues with her boss or prospective employer.  They should not be a consideration of exlusion or restriction when job hunting or of fear and loathing every time re-enrollment comes around once employed.  Surely, I'm not the only MT on this board who has had their benefits slashed in midstream.  Finally, these women should not be required to "prove" to their employer that they are using the pill for reasons that do not involve contraception.  NOT EVER.     

For the record, contrary to Slush Lamebaugh's inspiring, enlightened expertise, pregnancy prevention is NOT exclusively an issue for sluts, prostitutes, whores, promiscuous or "loose" women.  Planning of family size and pregnancy timing/spacing is a quality-of-life issue for men, women AND children of all religious persuasions.  

Coverage for prescription drugs, and specifically those associated with wellness and prevention (you remember....that field of medicine that helps CONTAIN and REDUCE the overall cost of health care for ALL OF US, not to mention the added bonus of enhanced quality of life) should not exclude the above types of treatment to an entire gender simply because they (gasp) are suspected of seeking control over their own bodies, the size of their families or (as is the case of the childless Lamebaugh) their desire NEVER to procreate....especially at the behest of regressive religious loons bent on erasing nearly 100 years of progress in women's health, while disingenuously invoking the 1st amendment to cover up a destructive and deeply polarizing partisan agenda.