{"id":3641,"date":"2016-01-16T12:59:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T18:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2016-01-16T13:30:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T19:30:04","slug":"an-incident-at-the-drugstore-and-the-answer-to-the-little-sisters-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2016\/01\/an-incident-at-the-drugstore-and-the-answer-to-the-little-sisters-issue.html","title":{"rendered":"An incident at the drugstore, and the answer to the Little Sisters issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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. . . if the Obama administration truly cared about respecting religious accommodation, that is.<\/p>\n

Anyway, at the start of the new year, we changed insurance. \u00a0It\u2019s yet another indicator of the dysfunction of the entire system that every year a different plan comes out having significantly lower premiums, where insurance companies would be better off with building brand loyalty, and, having stability in their customers, investing in health-improvement initiatives even if they only pay off in the long term. \u00a0But they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

We also, as a consequence of my son\u2019s broken arm over the summer, hit the deductible, so I was trying to fill some prescriptions at the last minute. \u00a0Unfortuately, long story short, they weren\u2019t able to fill the prescriptions until after the new year, so when I went in today to pick them up, I was ready to show them the new insurance card, and have it run through the new insurance, expecting that when the pharmacist tech had previously put it in their system, we would have shown up as uninsured, so the retail price would have been listed.<\/p>\n

But we didn\u2019t, and it wasn\u2019t. \u00a0This astonished me \u2014 their computer databases had enough information to link us to our new insurer<\/em> and policy number. \u00a0Could my kids\u2019 pediatrician have done this, too, rather than the laborious perpetual entering of insurance information? \u00a0I don\u2019t know. \u00a0Perhaps the systems at pharmacies are different.<\/p>\n

But in any case, that means that there is a very simple means of providing free contraceptives to women whose employers object for religious or moral reasons, a means that wholly removes them from the process: \u00a0code into the system, in the same manner as formulary\/nonformulary and negotiated discounts are coded, a code that simply says \u201cnot covered.\u201d \u00a0And then, when a woman with such a coverage seeks to fill a prescription, simply switch to a government entity as the provider<\/em> \u2014 which sure as heck ought to be a dirt-simple process, if they were able to seamlessly switch our data to the new insurer. \u00a0(I raised this over the summer<\/a>, but it seems even clearer to me now that this is, or should be, the solution.)<\/p>\n

As a bonus, the prescribing information will state that the pills were funded by the Federal Agency for the Provision of No-Out-of-Pocket-Cost Contraceptives, or whatever you want to call it, to further disconnect the Sisters.<\/p>\n

Are \u201cfree pills\u201d supporters afraid that some women, somewhere, will be told by their Catholic employers, \u201cwe don\u2019t cover contraception,\u201d without being informed enough to know that they\u2019ll get government-provided coverage if they walk into the pharmacy? \u00a0That only if their employer provides a notice on the bulletin board will they know? \u00a0\u2014 that they won\u2019t hear from their doctor, or from a notice at the drugstore, or from a viral post on facebook? \u00a0That\u2019s not a good enough reason to oblige objecting employers to be a part of the process.<\/p>\n

So there you go. \u00a0Easy-peasy. \u00a0Non-burdensome. \u00a0Why not?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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