Heck if I know what you know, you're just more likely to be biased about it due to your negative experiences.
A more sure bet is to set up her own insurance plan since she's so obviously dissatisfied with this one. After all, that way, she could come up with her own entrance requirements to be a member of the plan and her own incentives for abiding by the terms and conditiions. She could, in that way, leave behind the ignorants who are uncomfortable supporting her chosen lifestyle and she could go live in high-cost birth-control heaven (as opposed to the reasonably priced birth-control make-do's most of us live in.)
She is required by the university to buy into this one. Are you really that dense? Now you'll suggest she should drop out and apply elsewhere.
Oh no, that would be such a woefully horrific fucking hardship that it merits no consideration at all. And the idea that she bother reading up on the specifics of the insurance before she puts herself in a position where she'll be required to buy it? Pure crazy talk.
Not at all. Then again, I don't pitch a fit and demand my insurance company change the way it does business because it doesn't cover something I want.
So any objection to anything that doesn't fit your Procrustean definition is "pitching a fit." Gotcha.
Do I have an issue with birth control? Nope. Do I have an issue with whores? Nope. Should both be provided for as inexpensive as possible? Yep! Nope, no problem here.
Typical ugly man outlook. What's the difference between a bitch and whore? A whore will sleep with anybody. A bitch will sleep with anybody but you.
She did read the policy before going to his school. She knew Georgetown didn't cover it and that's the exact reason she went to that school. She is a reproductive rights activist. She went to this school with the plan of causing problems for the college. This is why this whole thing is bullshit. It's why the democrats started playing the whole republicans are against contraception theme a couple months ago. The democrats understand that they are losing ground on abortion issues and have now switched over to contraception issues.
And this has nothing to do with the fact that asshats like Santorum are characterizing contraception as a form of abortion...
It has already been stated that pills are available for those other reasons. But if one wants to take the pill merely not to get pregnant, then they are out of luck. I wonder why Ms Fluke has chosen to not go to Planned Parenthood. Perhaps she is against abortion as well, that is why she wants the pill. I have a few things to say. People are saying she should not have chosen that school, but I disagree. I think it is great that she chose that school and is now speaking about something she feels passionate about. Have y'all missed that there are married couples who wish to not get pregnant as well? Perhaps one of them should have been the spokes person instead. Also-why are some guys so bitter about this? Usually a women does not take responsibility, lies, or pokes a hole in a condemn, gets pregnant and then asks for support or a hand in marriage! Here is a woman speaking out about the responsibility she is taking to avoid this. Why would this make men upset? Also again-men get to have sex whenever they want with whomever they want and not worry about getting pregnant. (Although some do take ownership of their sperm). Yes women are responsible for their own bodies, and since we are the ones having a baby we are the ones who need to make decisions about our bodies and be responsible for that. So why is it not right in the year 2012 for a woman to ask for a little assistance for prevention rather than ask for assistance for her 10 babies she has with 10 different fathers? My understanding is this is a catholic religion issue so really it is a moot point-but either way the reaction to this is just amazing to me. There. : )
Oh, I think we're going to hear a whole lot out of his side on his record. How Bin Laden is dead because of a mission he ordered, how he's killed nearly triple the Al Qaeda leaders Bush did (and he did it in 3 years while Bush had 8), how he called it completely correct on the auto industry restructuring while Republicans screwed that one up & tried to play politics with it, we'll hear a fair amount about health care reform since 60%-70% of people now support it including most independents, we'll hear more and more about how the stimulus worked (just yesterday John McCain's old economic advisor even admitted that), how he gave a tax cut to 95% of Americans, and we will no doubt hear a ton about how his record of accomplishment compares to the Republican do nothing Congress who is currently polling at about 8% approval. You're delusional if you think he's not going to brag about all that stuff especially when he can contrast that record with the tea party/Republican record of trying to make the country default. Facts. Learn to live with them, my friend, or they'll hit you upside the head on election day.
I missed that in the article because of the conglomerate of stupid in the thread, but why the hell would a college require its students to pay for medical insurance? Especially since most of this kids (I assume, since they're going to Georgetown) are probably insured on their parents' medical insurance? Not laughing at you per se, but In the age of babymammas and babydaddies, does that whole "Getting pregnant to trap a man" shit even work anymore? The last time "The Young and the Restless did a story line like, most fans rolled their eyes and thought the dude was a complete and total moron for going along with it.
I don't know about most universities, but Portland State had insurance for any student taking at least 3/4 full-time in credits, and the price was included as part of the tuition, meaning even if you were only taking up to 8 credits a quarter, you were still paying for insurance but not getting it.
I don't know. I don't care this doesn't really affect me anyway. I have always taken not having a baby out of wed lock very seriously so I cannot relate to any chick who plays entrapment. Honestly, I have known some guys who wanted to get a chick pregnant for the same reason! WTF people.
I'm fascinated how, with all the bragging about sexual conquests, and displaying of porn, and locker room talk about "celebrities I'd like to bone", and frank admissions of wrestling with cyclops over the years....how it all rockets right back to puritanism when the overlords ring the right Pavlovian bells. Fascinating, a little depressing, and...I shouldn't at all be surprised.
"Yah so I've banged all these chicks, I'm a regular stud." "Hey nice, you do that smokin' hot brunette over there?" "Her? Nah, I hear she's had two boyfriends. I don't do whores."
So much for "power of the consumer", huh? Seriously... why is it that people trying to make anything work a little better gets you so venomous? Here we've got a person who has to purchase an add on with her product trying to negotiate a greater value for herself and future buyers, and once again, you pitch a fit. Are you intentionally this stupid or did your mother drink a lot of aftershave while pregnant?
She should'a picked a university that either doesn't require a student to buy health insurance or one with an insurance plan that better meets her needs. Or she could just pay the nine bucks a month for birth control pills herself.
You know I like you, Turkey, but I have to smile at the irony of anyone writing a post like that and accusing someone else of being "venomous"...
Because universities are chosen based on whether or not their forced insurance covers the needs of half the population?
To me, the problem is that instead of fighting for the right to buy her own insurance policy with what she wants in it, she is fighting for a variation that will still be forced on everyone (even more widely than the insurance contract she has, since she wants the federal government to impose it, not just one university), but just happens to be more along the lines of what she personally happens to want. It's quite a stretch, in that light, to paint her as someone who is valiantly defending the principle of free-market choices.
