With all due respect, let me see if I have this straight…we’re all gung ho to spend $360 to provide the HPV vaccine but birth control pills are no longer affordable for those who need them most. How about a tax on every male in this country for the role they play in this travesty??
“Prices for oral contraceptives, or birth control pills, are doubling and tripling at student health centers, the result of a complex change in the Medicaid rebate law that essentially ends an incentive for drug companies to provide deep discounts to colleges.
“It’s a tremendous problem for our students because not every student has a platinum card,” said Hugh Jessop, executive director of the health center at Indiana University.
There, he said, women are paying about $22 per month for prescriptions that cost $10 a few months ago. “Some of our students have two jobs, have children,” Jessop said. “To increase this by 100 percent or more overnight, which is what happened, is a huge shock to them and to their system.”"
Ammu Joseph: News coverage of IWD
Just a quick link–Ammu Joseph has an excellent piece on the Women’s Voices blog about international news coverage of IWD, very worthwhile read.