Birth Control in Wisconsin

[ClydeR]

Wisconsin Gov. Walker's new budget will undo a law signed by his Democrat predecessor two year ago.


Gov. Scott Walker's budget would repeal a state law requiring insurance companies cover prescription birth control.

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Health insurance is a private contract between the insurance company and the patient. Insurance companies should not be mandated to provide for specific things in their insurance policies, just like people should not be mandated to buy specific kinds of insurance policies.

Besides, birth control is not even a health problem. And health insurance is for health problems.

I don't see how Wisconsin will ever balance its budget if insurance companies in the state are required to provide birth control to women. Wisconsin needs more people working -- nonunionized people only please -- if it is going to dig itself out of the hole it's in. Birth control hinders that goal.



Don't stop, Gov. Walker! The whole nation is rooting for you. You are even bigger than Charlie Sheen. If Gov. Walker would just start a Twitter, he would get more than the million followers that Charlie Sheen got on his first day.

[crb]

The libertarian in me agrees. I hate most healthcare mandates, nothing more than special interest giveaways.

The practical libertarian in me disagrees. I recognize we do not live in a perfectly libertarian world and unwanted children often become public burdens. Birth control is cheap when compared to the alternatives.

I would even go so far as to offer a bribe to women on welfare to get an IUD.

[4a6c1]

I would even go so far as to offer a bribe to women on welfare to get an IUD.

This is such a common sense, practical idea. Which is why it will never be endorsed by anyone. Ever.

[xt3kn1x]

This is such a common sense, practical idea. Which is why it will never be endorsed by anyone. Ever.

+1

[crb]

Actually, the real reason it won't even happen is because it is...

RAAAACISSSST!

Guaranteed, if someone proposed bribing people on public assistance to get an IUD Al Sharpton would roll in waving his flabby arms and decreeing it is just an attempt by the man to prevent the flow of brown babies.

Technically, he would be right, but it wouldn't be because the babies were brown.

[Parkbandit]

Actually, the real reason it won't even happen is because it is...

RAAAACISSSST!

Guaranteed, if someone proposed bribing people on public assistance to get an IUD Al Sharpton would roll in waving his flabby arms and decreeing it is just an attempt by the man to prevent the flow of brown babies.

Technically, he would be right, but it wouldn't be because the babies were brown.

There are more white people on welfare than black people.

[Keller]

There are more white people on welfare than black people.

How does that make anything he said wrong?

[Parkbandit]

How does that make anything he said wrong?

Where did I say he said anything wrong? I was merely pointing out a fact that is usually overlooked.

[crb]

Don't worry, Sharpton would never let facts get in the way of a good protest.

[~Rocktar~]

Don't worry, Sharpton would never let facts get in the way of a good protest.

Or using whatever is popular to bilk more money from his self loathing, gilt ridden, Liberal supporters.

[Keller]

Where did I say he said anything wrong? I was merely pointing out a fact that is usually overlooked.

Makes sense.

[waywardgs]

Birth control should be in the tap water.

[Delias]

There are more white people on welfare than black people.

because there are more white people.

I think a program of voluntary sterilization with a one time cash payment should be made available... the kind that is reversible but expensive to undo. I forget what it's called, my sister had it done. In any event, the majority of people who would do such a thing are probably the same people young and stupid enough to get pregnant without any sort of plan in the first place. When they are older, if they want to have kids, the process can be reversed... but the required funds to do so would demonstrate fairly well that they must have gotten their shit together by then.

this will also never happen.

[Latrinsorm]

Reversible sterilization doesn't have a great track record. A small but significant amount of the time either the reversible part or the sterilization part doesn't work out.
Birth control should be in the tap water.If it weren't for the side effects, anyway.

[crb]

We could adopt the Starship Troopers model?

"Want to have a baby? Be a citizen!"

Now off to the coed showers with you.

[Delias]

Reversible sterilization doesn't have a great track record. A small but significant amount of the time either the reversible part or the sterilization part doesn't work out.If it weren't for the side effects, anyway.

I'm strangely still comfortable with my idea.