Women's preventive health care now easier to afford

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Originally Posted by Danzig

another concern i have-how much will this cost the states?

I don't know what you are talking about. The ACA in it's entirety? The costs are listed in the Wikipedia entry for it, if you want to see how it was paid for. The CBO has scored it a net zero - meaning your taxes are not predicted to go up to pay for any of it.

The birth control thing is a consumer protection for private insurance companies.

all the govt should have done was expanded coverage thru medicaid to cover those who can't get coverage.

I agree. But that was called socialized medicine and death panels, and people feared it and screamed they didn't want that government takeover of their healthcare (they talked about expanding Medicare, not Medicaid). That is essentially what they have come up with temporarily, until the insurance exchanges kick in.

Actually, I think everyone in the country should be able to buy into Medicare if they want.

That would also leave the private insurance companies with only the healthy patients, they would refuse to insure and orphan anyone with any problem at all. That wouldn't work.