Well if we want to have them cover IVF then they should cover the opposite and preventing pregnancy. I just wonder what the limit will be on condoms, for those that fuck it might not be enough.
Your insurance covers 1 per month, uhh when I was 18 that was good for a year.
Oregon has a program that will let you order 20 a month shipped to your door
I mean, free to order and a limited supply sounds like a good way to have people who actually use and want them.
Easy, free but inconvenient enough you won’t do it for the hell of it.
Sounds like a good idea, I don’t see why not. Now if only I had health insurance…
I finally got insurance. Now if only I had sex.
Now if only we can bundle them together.
new progressive comersal insues “With our new bundle we bundled intamacy and pation with your boat insurance”
Health Insurance needs to not exist and Universal Healthcare juts cover all the stuff people need to stay healthy and live productive lives. From sexual healthcare to mental healthcare and of course medicine and anything else you’d need to see a doctor or medical professional for.
You really want to go the pharmacy and hand them your ID and insurance card while the look you up and say “actually these condoms are ‘ribbed for her pleasure’ rather than ‘skin-feel’ so are not covered, also you’re over your condom allowance”. That would be so awkward barely anyone would bother.
They’ll give you the cheapo Lifestyles condoms from college campuses. The ones seemingly designed to break.
Those are still high quality compared to the Romed ones that were occasionally handed out at our high school. It’s a miracle my first girlfriend didn’t have to get an abortion tbh. We decided it was safer to just pull out.
I mean depends on how many you get per month.
“Shit, sorry babe, I haven’t hit my deductable… I need some money for more condoms.”
They also say HIV testing for prevention needs to be covered but my state run institution violates it and charges $280. Fuck you MU Healthcare, you homophobic fucks!!!
That is awful. In MN you can get free HIV testing and free Prep, I can’t imagine paying hundreds of dollars for HIV testing.
I ended up going with Mistr since it’s free. Though I don’t like having to milk the blood out of my finger, I’d rather go to the clinic.
The condom part is silly.
Cost and availability aren’t barriers to condom usage. They sell 36 packs of condoms at Walmart for like $15. Basically every single convenience store sells them for prices that, while massively inflated, are pretty low in the grand scheme of things. Most college health centers give them out for free.
The reason people don’t wear them is because doing it raw just feels better.
For some, that’s less than a month’s supply.
For many people price is a barrier. One which has no need to exist, and only exists because for some reason Christian bosses don’t want to recognize that their employees have sex, and get all weird about it.
College health centers usually only hand them out to their students. Do you think people stop having sex after they graduate?
This is besides the fact that the best way to reduce abortions and unwanted pregnancies on the whole is to provide and encourage contraceptives. One way to do that is make condoms and contraception covered by healthcare.
Edit to add: man, I get enough awkwardness buying my partner’s tampons if she needs a top-off. I certainly don’t want her knowing my dick size.
Don’t be embarrassed, nobody gives a shit about that stuff. Also… if you’re using condoms… how would she not already know your dick size!?
Funny… so I’m leaving it… but you do know I was referring to the cashier knowing?
And yes, this particular cashier does comment on the tampons- and given the whole-getting-hit-on-thing, the less she knows about me the better.
(Walmart Lady needs higher standards.)
Your Walmart doesn’t have self-checkout? Or other open lanes? It’s one particular cashier? Regardless if she’s harassing you like that you need to let her/management know.
Look I’m sorry but this is ridiculous. The type of people to not be able to afford $15/month most likely don’t have insurance, or even access to a pharmacy. While there isn’t any real data on the venn diagram of people having sex more than once a day and being too poor to afford an extra 50¢ per day for every extra sex session, but I suspect it is vanishingly small.
At some point this is just virtue signaling. It’s eyeroll inducing.
First off, condoms break…not often but they do.
secondly, some use toys that may or may not need to be also covered.
Third, you really should be changing condoms after anal and going to something else.
Finally there are people that are incredibly… uh… horny. I’m not one of them, but yes, they do in fact exist. There’s a reason many senior living homes pass around free condoms, too.
And on the note of people having health insurance… that’s also a problem that should be solved. But that’s rather off topic.
If you’re having sex more than once very day but can’t come up with $15, you should go fuck yourself (pun intended)
I know, right? Like who can’t afford $2/year?
Either you scrape together a few bucks in spare change now, or 18 years of child support/penicillin later.
Can we pick the brand? I don’t want no thinkass rubber balloons.
And size :-/
Don’t worry, they offer them in extra-small.
HEY-OOOOOOOO!
So how do you know…
;-)
Your mom told me.
HEY-OOOOOOOO!
Yeah but I was 6
THAT DOESN’T MAKE IT OKAY.
HEY-OOOOO
IT THEN DID GROOOOW
SO WHEN I WAS EIGHTEEN
IT WAS A MONSTER MACHIIIINE!
CONDOMS NOW SO SMALL WHAT SHOULD I DOOOO
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Prevents abortions, Republicans should be all for this, right? Right?
Inevitably it will only be covered by Medicare, commence pulling apart the grilled cheese sandwich.
If you are a laborer and not an owner or a board member then I don’t give a fuck what your job is, you deserve to get paid more. Wages have been stagnant for 50 years, but labor value has increased 3 fold. For non owners everyone needs their salaries tripled just to get us back on track.
Eh, some jobs are overpayed. Unironically, software development is overpaid.
Abso-fucking-lutely.
Fucking liberals want to block me from having STDs
Doesn’t Medicare Part D already cover stuff like penis pumps? Have sworn I read that somewhere.
I think you should just be happy with what you got. There’s people with worse problems than being a needle dick.
Apparently, they are also used for treating erectile disfunction.
Hot take: the few people still having sex can buy their own comdoms
Condoms are literally a public heath necessity. Even more so in states that banned abortion. My state provides free contraception to teens, and the drastic drop in stds and teen pregnancies paid off the funding for the program in months. Over the years tens of billions will be saved by my state.
Nothing stopping everyone else from having a posh wank now and again.
A desperate attempt by Kamala to win more votes?
Let me fix that for you: a politician’s attempt to court disengaged voters by presenting a popular proposal. AKA democracy.
An interesting cause to embrace two weeks before an election, then.
Is it tho?
It’s better than pretending to work at a fast food restaurant while also ignoring health codes.
Damn those dems using common sense policies to win votes!!
I want my representatives to use fear mongering and do absolutely nothing!
No, thats not what I think
…I think
The White House: *does anything*
Idiots: DERE JEST DOING IT FUR VOTES!!!
Also idiots: DA DUMOCRATES HAVUNT DUN ENYTHING DURRING DERE TURM!!!1!!
Shhhhhh… The adults are working…
Go finish your beer.
I don’t really think of proposing new policies as “desperate” so much as just trying to outline her goals to people who are still undecided.
Now if she went out and did some weird photoshoot stunt, I might start to pull out the desperate label.
The good ol’ Mickey D’s strategy
How dare she… Give people the things they want for votes… The outrage!
that’s the hardest ratio on this site I’ve SEEN. The only upvote from one hundred and six people was from yourself.
I’ve got plus around 500 and minus around 500 on Reddit once EDIT: in the same day. Don’t remember which was which. The upvoted comment was vague approval of USSR’s actually existent checks and balances. I suspect the other one was generally the same at the same subreddit. I suspect when Redditors see something vague, they just guess, and then the next Redditor only looks at the vote count.
What is your specific issue with this policy?
I get that you think it is being done as a political stunt, but what is the actual issue you have with it aside from that?
Insurance is why the cost of healthcare is out of control in the US.
Its a handout to condom companies and stores that otherwise would have to compete on price. Granted, I don’t know how it would be implemented, but these tend not to be implemented well
So it’s better to make people pay for their own condoms and other OTC contraceptives rather than have insurance cover it? Because that sounds worse to me.
Yes, insurance exists for unexpected events, that’s why its insurance. A condom is a cost you willingly accept. And to be honest, primary care often shouldn’t be insurable, but since plans are required to cover it without price discrimination it kills direct primary care- so this is something that has to be accepted. Now, if medicare/medicaid and other programs choose to cover it that’s a different thing, but requiring all plans cover it is dumb. But I guess plans don’t really have to compete that much on price and value-added that much anymore post-ACA anyways
Then insurance should also not cover things like breast exams and colonoscopies, right?
They are not unexpected events.
As I said in theory insurance shouldn’t cover primary care, but this is required post-ACA, and I think before too but I’m not sure starting from when. I think direct primary care could be great(but there are also otherways to do it, like optional primary care insurance).
For some preventative things insurance would choose to cover it if it weren’t required to save them money in the long run.
You didn’t answer my question.
Should breast exams and colonoscopies be covered by insurance?
