Birth control prices soar on campuses

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By JUSTIN POPE, AP Education Writer Fri Mar 23, 5:52 AM ET

Millions of college students are suddenly facing sharply higher prices for birth control, prompting concerns among health officials that some will shift to less preferred contraceptives or stop using them altogether.

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.
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Before the change, pharmaceutical companies typically sold drugs at deep discounts to a range of health care providers, including colleges. With contraceptives, one motivation was attracting customers who would stay with their products for years.​

Yea that makes me feel like they really had my health as the motivation…Seems they just wanted loyalty to make more money!

I am not really feeling any sympathy for the higher cost of the pill. Hopeful it might force people to take responsiblity for their health and not depend on BC as a fix it all for every womens problem. You would not believe how many times doctors try to put me or other women on it or when you went to the clinic on campus how BC was pushed or they always asking you if you were really sick or just here for a pregency test. Totally happended to my friend Mel. She had a eye infection that you could see from a mile away and yet they kept asking her if she wanted to take a test! ARGH!!!
 
beckers said:
Birth control prices soar on campuses
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070323/ap_on_he_me/colleges_contraceptives

By JUSTIN POPE, AP Education Writer Fri Mar 23, 5:52 AM ET

Millions of college students are suddenly facing sharply higher prices for birth control, prompting concerns among health officials that some will shift to less preferred contraceptives or stop using them altogether.

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.
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Before the change, pharmaceutical companies typically sold drugs at deep discounts to a range of health care providers, including colleges. With contraceptives, one motivation was attracting customers who would stay with their products for years.​

Yea that makes me feel like they really had my health as the motivation…Seems they just wanted loyalty to make more money!

I am not really feeling any sympathy for the higher cost of the pill. Hopeful it might force people to take responsiblity for their health and not depend on BC as a fix it all for every womens problem. You would not believe how many times doctors try to put me or other women on it or when you went to the clinic on campus how BC was pushed or they always asking you if you were really sick or just here for a pregency test. Totally happended to my friend Mel. She had a eye infection that you could see from a mile away and yet they kept asking her if she wanted to take a test! ARGH!!!
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The company I work for covers reproductive “medicine” in full. So all the little college girls will have no difficulty here.
 
Doubtful that it will increase awareness and responablity for ones actions. Most likely it will just increase the abortion rate all the more. (Contraception may be a mortal sin but it does not cause an instant excommunication as abortion does, ending many opportunities for grace.)
 
Let us just pray that this causes some women to think twice (or more) about casual sex. Unfortunately, it may just cause abortion rates to go up, or illnesses from other types of sexual contact. 😦
 
Although some think this is good I really feel apauled that that they would do this becuase I know MANY girls who take birth contol pills for medicianal reasons and don’t have sex. I know just as many or more who do, but I’d hate to see my friends not be able to afford them suffer becuse of it. And I really do mean suffer, for some its so bad that without the pills the’d probably opt for a hystorectomy.
 
I think that having lowered prices of BC on college campuses is a good thing. The higher prices are bad because if the BC companies decide to do it then other companies that supply medication to college Health Service centers may follow suit. This means antibiotics, and other medications may go up in price too. At my college diseases spread quickly, they almost had to shut down my campus because of the flu before Spring Break. I think from what I know about the proposal, that college heath services should be exempt from the medicade laws. Not all college students have adequate heath or prescription coverage. Or their health insurance is not adequate in the state they attend school.Personally, my insurance only covers DR’s in the state that the policy is without filing paper work and making phone calls. I go to an in state college so that is not a problem for me. Granted most schools health services are not the best, but they are better than waiting until break and getting sicker.

The choice to provide BC is up to the college, so in my mind as long as BC went with the college’s morals. The health services at the Catholic college that I applied to refused to carry or give prescriptions for BC. The college I go to carries them but, as they are a PRIVATE institution. I also believe that since the US is a secular countries, moral values stemming from religion should not used to make laws. If the US was a Catholic country and was doing this then I’d have a problem with it. But we have the freedom of religion and I support other’s freedom to choose their religion. By doing so I cannot say that our country should have laws based on Catholic or any other religion. The BC is not mandatory for female students, it is their choice, something they must decide based on THEIR values not mine or anyone else’s.
 
The government should have no role in subsidizing immoral behavior.
 
About 39 percent of undergraduate women use oral contraceptives, according to an estimate by the American College Health Association based on survey data.
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I’d post the picture but I am not sure they would want it on here. In the college newspaper here, they had 3 pages on vagina monologues. The girls all wore black tee shirts with white print that said “I(white heart) female O” I know you can figure out the word and it had the whole word in the largest print. They also had a large vagina that they actually wore down Main Street until they were stopped.

Yet I have tried to donate the book by Teresa Burke and David Reardon into the library and was rejected. I have donated it to a few libraries. I checked back later and found out the book has been taken out hundreds of time by patrons.

I remember Dr. Mildred Jefferson telling about how abortion almost was squelched but Dixie Cup used the libraries to put a lot of pro-abortion things in to sway people.

A friend of mine put a lot of pro-life material which had the title "abortion"into a bunch of libraries only to check a few years later and most of it was gone. I may try a video.
 
Colleges are so bad. What moral obligation do parents have toward their children attending college?

I think parents are being taken in. I know we all want our children to get an education but at what cost?
 
Colleges are so bad. What moral obligation do parents have toward their children attending college?
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You can’t do much without an undergraduate college degree.

As time passes you can’t even do much with that.

We’ve chaged from a skill based economy to a knowledge based one.
 
No but I lived near a junior and 4 year college but my children would not go there.

John Kippley of Couple to Couple League used to say it was better to send your children to a college and let them live at home than even to a catholic college if it was not authentic catholic. When I discussed this with my children, they went off the deep end.

I just wish parents had more control in this matter.
 
Meggie said:
You can’t do much without an undergraduate college degree.

As time passes you can’t even do much with that.

We’ve chaged from a skill based economy to a knowledge based one.
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I like this idea of a knowledge based economy. I’m still looking for a nice job where someone will pay me for being smart. In the meantime I have to make use of the modicum of skills I picked up on the side in grad school.
 
Bobby_Jim said:
I like this idea of a knowledge based economy. I’m still looking for a nice job where someone will pay me for being smart. In the meantime I have to make use of the modicum of skills I picked up on the side in grad school.
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College, especally grad school, is what you make of it. If you only got a modicum of skills during grad school they your own effort was not enough.

College really IS about what you make of it. Anyone can get a degree, but not everyone can be a part of clubs, hold down a job or two, be in honor society, voulenteer. What you learn in the classroom is often not what education means.

And you’ll never be paid for “being smart”.

However, these “hot” job markets require college and understandably so.
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Computer technology**-including software, systems design and analysis
Medical- doctors, nurses, deltal, optomotrists, ENT’s (ear nose throat)
International relations-esp foreign language based ones
Teachers-elementary, high, and continuing ed
Logistics- personal, mass transit and product (how to bring the global economy together)
Legal- lawyers, politicans, mayors, govenors
Accounting-public and private

In the old economy most of these jobs were unheard of. Many people worked in small businesses, manufacturing and service. These industries only exist on a small scale of what existed long ago. Although people learn over time, acheivers worked their way up the latter. Latters now look more like tree branches…where opurtunites don’t act as a straight line.
I just wish parents had more control in this matter.
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Actually I feel THIS is the problem. If the kids in college had to be adults without mom and dad paying for college, covering their behinds or otherwise being their buddy then they would more likely value what they had and not look at college as highschool without a parental roof.

I’m only a junior, but there is far difference in the promiscuity of the freshman this year, as the first generation of “hilicopter parents” and their children arrive. My friends and I are part of a lingering breed who non-hovering parents led us right, support us just enough, but otherwise give us enough free reign not to make stupid choices.
 
Meggie said:
Actually I feel THIS is the problem. If the kids in college had to be adults without mom and dad paying for college, covering their behinds or otherwise being their buddy then they would more likely value what they had and not look at college as highschool without a parental roof.

I’m only a junior, but there is far difference in the promiscuity of the freshman this year, as the first generation of “hilicopter parents” and their children arrive. My friends and I are part of a lingering breed who non-hovering parents led us right, support us just enough, but otherwise give us enough free reign not to make stupid choices.
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I completely agree! My parents wouldn’t pay a red cent for college or college related expenses. My education, time, health and life goals are too important (and the money I spent on college too much) to do anything other than work and school.
 
Meggie said:
…I know MANY girls who take birth contol pills for medicianal reasons and don’t have sex… ./QUOTE

I’m one of those girls. I have a reproductive “syndrome” and the most effective treatment is taking birth control pills even though I’m not sexually active. If I don’t take the pills my chances of getting cancer when I’m older go up exponentially. Thankfully I’m still on my moms insurance and they pay 100% of the cost for the pills so I don’t have to pay a dime. This is still bad news though in general even though it won’t effect me. At least condoms are still free.
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Oh, I am so dated. At my college many years ago, there were no “reproductive services” and no health clinic.
 
Mac6yver said:
The government should not legislate morals.
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I see no problem with gov’t legislation of morals, what I do see a problem with is tax payer dollars funding things that are entirely against my belief system (i.e. immorality).

Catholig
 
Actually government legislation of morals would mean that the government decides what is moral and immoral, and try to control the church - similar to the gay adoption bit in the U.K. so in fact I do have a problem with it.

Anyways, I still think that the government shouldn’t be involved in funding birth control.

Catholig
 
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