I think as the above article states this is a good compromise:
The basic plan will cost $1,234 a year for an additional $60.00 a year the student can opt for abortion coverage.
However, this part of the article led me to wonder:
University of Toledo students have been required to have health insurance for several years, and the plan offered by UT currently includes abortion coverage.
I wondered, do they charge males for abortion coverage? In checking the PDF there is no difference in price for male or female students. As far as a price comparison I'm not sure if BGSU considers a "year" as 365 days or only for two semesters. UT's student insurance currently costs $342 for Fall, $551 for Spring/Summer which would be a total yearly cost of $893.00. (Which has been stated as $1,211 on several other sources, one source.) The maxium benefit for an abortion is $280.00, oral contraceptions are not covered unless they are deemed medically necessary.
Will University of Toledo students demand that abortion coverage be optional? That remains to be seen. Since items like Viagra would be covered under the current UT student prescription coverage should oral contraceptives also be covered? (Yes, that's something I've often wondered since most prescription plans that don't cover contraceptives do cover the different types of Viagra type drugs.)
How much it would further reduce the cost of the UT student insurance if abortion costs were optional is hard to say given BGSU and UT have different prices and plans.
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19 comments:
I will have to look into my old schools to see what they offer. I have always had outside insurance and never looked into it through school
Considering males are involved in the act of conception one could toss the gender question out of the debate. But on the other hand, could a case be made that I don't want part of my required university fee going toward the payment of any abortions?
But Aaron, if a male with insurance gets a female without insurance pregnant, his policy is not going to pay for her abortion. It would only pay for an abortion for him which isn't possible. If he had spousal coverage than they would pay the additional fee for her not for him. That's why I questioned if males have to pay the same amount. Really that could be transitioned to child birth costs as well since males cannot deliver children. I realize it's easier to just make it a straight across the board dollar amount for males and females but that was my thought process when I wrote this.
I still think paying for the Viagra stuff and not the birth control is the worst part of this mess.
It is rather silly isn't it? We'll pay to help create a sitution that could result in a birth but we won't pay to prevent that.
:-)
And yet they'll pay to end it, too. Hmmm. Their priorities are not...what can I say...in order?
Lisa Renee...
I apologize in advance for commenting off topic, but I am desperately trying to spread the word before it is too late!
Pennsylvania is in danger! Tomorrow the PA House of Representatives will be voting to ADD an Ohio & Texas style “Marriage Protection Amendment” to the states constitution!
Obviously, we in PA have got to do whatever we can to drum up support and work to defeat this repugnant and hateful piece of legislation.
So I am turning to you and your considerable readership for help.
If you are from PA, or know people in PA please direct them to this link so they can tell their representative to vote AGAINST HB2381!
http://usagenda.blogspot.com/2006/03/pennsylvania-march-15th-committee-vote.html
Gary- I emailed several of the Pennsyvania reps, but it doesn't look like any of them have been opened yet.
Aaron- I understand your point of not wanting fees to go towards abortion. I don't want tax dollars of mine to go to religious groups or churches, to help pay for a war that I opposed in Iraq, or for pay increases for the people in DC. I think we should form a group and just call it, "Not With My Money".
Gary, I know a few people in PA, so I have emailed them this information.
Thank you! I really appreciate your support guys!
I don't know anyone from PA personally, but that has never stopped me from pissing someone off. I just like to email representatives and let them know I am paying attention
The thing is that most of them don't pay any attention to those of us who don't live in their state, the end result of too many attempts to swarm them with email has made them pretty much disregard those not from their state. Some of them you can't even submit the contact form if you don't have a valid address from within their state.
Considering they're supposed to be representing people from their state and are being paid by people from their state why should they waste their time, and their taxpayers' money, by reading letters from those outside of their state?
Because what happens in an individual state affects the whole country. And also because I am willing to bet that funds for lobbying are coming from outside PA. When the Christian Coalition and my good buddy Ralph Reed went after a school board member who came out, they got money from all over the country.
That was one of the things that got me into politics. I want to destroy Ralph Reed and all of those like him. I knew the guy they went after well and he helped me out a lot when my dad was too drunk to be there. They came to town and called him a child molestor and pedophile, but they knew nothing about him.
Plus, I have been emailing reps in other states since I was in the Army. Just to let them know that I am out there somewhere and watching
I don't email out of state reps anymore, but I have called a few at times and I tell them I don't live in their state but I am calling because I agree or disagree and think it's important because...
But then again I think email's been destroyed as a communication tool to reach even your own state reps with the way people have over promoted email barrages. That's why they moved to change it to the form to submit rather than the email address. I've also been told by various staffers that when they see it's one of those mass mailings they don't give it the same attention they do the invididual emails or the phone calls.
Mine are always individual messages. I usually don't agree with everything those mass mailers put in
I figured that, you aren't the type to be lemming like, but it has affected all of us that do email. I can't say I blame them, if someone doesn't care enough about an issue to create an individual email then they are not going to give it much attention.
Now that I'm making calls every now and then they actually call me back, I don't get that kind of a response from emails. Most times you are lucky to get a form response (yes the irony of them ignoring form letters yet responding with one is hard to miss)
If I could start a law that only allowed campaign contributions from the candidates voting area, I would. However, I doubt that would get passed with our current batch of representatives.
Basic health care including abortions is kind of backwards, if you think about it.
It's like you are encouraging students to be careless/lazy/stupid.
And by that, I mean both genders...
Besides, by college students should know what causes pregnancy.
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