{"id":546,"date":"2014-04-09T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T08:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/04\/obamacare-a-huge-victory-for-women.html"},"modified":"2014-04-09T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T08:37:00","slug":"obamacare-a-huge-victory-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/04\/obamacare-a-huge-victory-for-women.html","title":{"rendered":"Obamacare: a “huge victory for women”?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

That\u2019s the quote from Kathy Waligora of Ever-Thrive Illinois, in today\u2019s article<\/a> on the benefits of Obamacare for women, a piece credited to Judy Peres, \u201cspecial to the Tribune,\u201d and later described as being \u201cproduced in partnership with Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Yeah, I was planning on very light blogging this week, due to a client deadline and a sewing-project deadline, for the school\u2019s Living Stations of the cross, coming at the same time, and really had to bite my tongue rather than respond to comments and articles promoting, effectively, open borders. \u00a0And I wanted to write about Tyler Cowen\u2019s Average is Over, though I wasn\u2019t impressed with the book much. \u00a0But a few words on this article first. . .)<\/p>\n

Anyway, the article is all about the wonderful things Obamacare does for women: \u00a0the requirement that all policies include maternity benefits (without any waiting period or pre-existing condition exclusion), the substantial list of preventive care benefits covered at no out-of-pocket cost, most significantly including all forms of contraception regardless of pricetag.<\/p>\n

Downsides of the law, according to the article: \u00a0insurers may not be obliged to cover, without out-of-pocket costs, expenses related to removal of IUDs or complications resulting from their use. \u00a0Abortion coverage is a \u201cgap,\u201d especially under Medicaid. \u00a0And the author profiles a women who wants to get pregnant via artificial insemination because she\u2019s in a lesbian relationship and hopes to have these costs covered by insurance:<\/p>\n

\u201cInsemination would be covered for a heterosexual couple if they failed to conceive after a year,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the language (of the policy) doesn\u2019t mention same-sex couples. I might have to pay for the first attempt. If that didn\u2019t work I\u2019d be technically infertile, and the next attempts would probably be covered.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, this woman expects health insurance to pay for her attempts to get pregnant through artificial means, under the weakest definition of \u201cinfertility\u201d (after the \u201cfirst attempt\u201d? \u00a0when the usual definition requires attempting for a year).<\/p>\n

Oh, and the author has discovered that vasectomies aren\u2019t covered as a \u201cfree preventive service\u201d but tubal ligation is. <\/p>\n

So nothing new under the sun, right? A journalist (or, more likely, \u201cjournalist\u201d \u2014 if the author is really an employee at an Obamacare-advocacy organization) thinks that Obamacare means free lunches for everyone. \u00a0But it\u2019s still grating to read this sort of \u201cjournalism\u201d as I start my morning.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That\u2019s the quote from Kathy Waligora of Ever-Thrive Illinois, in today\u2019s article on the benefits of Obamacare for women, a piece credited to Judy Peres, \u201cspecial to the Tribune,\u201d and later described as being \u201cproduced in partnership with Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation.\u201d (Yeah, I was planning on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nObamacare: a "huge victory for women"?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"That's the quote from Kathy Waligora of Ever-Thrive Illinois, in today's article on the benefits of Obamacare for women, a piece credited to Judy Peres,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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