Wednesday, November 27, 2013
A Silver Lining with Obamacare
In the article, “New Study Confirms Obamacare’s Birth Control Mandate Will Reduce Abortion Rate” by, Tara Culp-Ressler, gives considerable evidence that Obamacare is moving in the right direction with its intended audience to get the picture and jump on board. Many will argue that Obamacare is a good idea; however, the possibility of mandating health insurance to those who do not see fit is another story. Due to the statistics of this particular reform, I completely agree with their intentions. Living in low income areas makes it extremely hard to maintain health care coverage. A study has been conducted among young women living in the low-income St. Louis, MO area. The CHOICE project imitates the Obamacare program. The results showed that birth rates among teens who were active participants in the study were given free birth control which dramatically lowered birth rates to “6.3 births per 1,000 teens, compared to 34.3 births per 1,000 teens nationwide in 2010. Abortion rates were also drastically down by less than half on the regional and national level according to researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine.” To paraphrase, researchers found that when women are not barred by costs, they chose a longer lasting and more effective form of birth control. More and more evidence is becoming clear that the Affordable Healthcare Act has good intentions. This program is also conducive to winning over more supporters in health care reform act. Women generally spend more money going to the doctor. The average amount for a year supply of birth control is approximately $1,200 out of pocket. Here is some food for thought. Having access to free birth contraceptives surely beats having to collectively pay for welfare recipients.
Let us face it! Sex is universal. We all have or will engage in the activity sometime in our lives. Why not be as safe and responsible as possible when being sexually active? This would in return help the government in the years to come.
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I have to completely agree with Miss J article, Silver Lining With Obamacare in this article she talks about the Affordable Act Care allowing woman access to free contraceptives. I also believe that if more women where to have access to better, affordable clinics where they take care of them selves more. The pregnancy rate of unwanted babies would decrease as well as abortions and sexual transmitted diseases. Miss J mentions many statistics that support my previous statement. She also mentions that it costs a woman roughly about $1200 a year out of pocket for birth control. But the average middle class couple will spend on average $12,000 the first year after having a child not including hospital charges. What about the poor group though the people who can't afford such expenses. Most of them rely on the government to pay for most of those expenses and the government well it relies on taxpayers. Making it way more expensive on the middle and higher class. All this to prove that supporting Obamacare will help not only woman who can not afford birth control or regular exams but at the end it will benefit the entire country in the long run. So once again I say I couldn't agree anymore with Miss J on her article.
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