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Originally Posted by Danzig
Although the new women's preventive services will be free of any additional charge to patients, somebody will have to pay. The cost will be spread among other people with health insurance, resulting in slightly higher premiums.
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Yes, exactly as it is now. But again: would you rather, as a group paying for the others in your insurance group, pay for a pap smear? Or cervical cancer? Pay for a mammogram? Or treating breast cancer? Pay for birth control pills? Or for a pregnancy, delivery, and 20 years of health care for the child?
Which do you think is gonna lower your premiums over time? Paying for preventive care for everyone, or paying for the diseases?
BTW, birth control pills cost about a dollar a month or less to make. The pharmacist buys them for a couple dollars. The insurance company negotiates a charge to their insured at that pharmacy, and they pocket your "copay".
You guys would be furious if you knew how little it costs to make drugs that you pay hundreds of dollars a month for. But, the drug companies put the money into research and development, so I can't begrudge them their profit. But it is sad to see people die because insurance companies won't pay exaggerated inflated prices to the drug companies for particular drugs. Death panels.