It appears that the right-wingers on the US Supreme Court, in the interest of "freedom of religion" decided to jam their religion down everyone else's throat.
Justices rule on contraception coverage | UTSanDiego.com: Here is a link to the actual decision: http://www.scribd.com/doc/231968582/Burwell-v-Hobby-Lobby
So now employees who work for right-wing companies will no longer be able to get coverage for birth control. Of course men will still be able to get drugs to help them with impotency such as viagra. All of this is to support the right-wing desire for members of their religion to have more babies. The one thing the world doesn't need is MORE babies. Catholics want more babies, Mormons want more babies, Muslims want more babies, Hasidic Jews want more babies. They all want more children to help spread their "only true" religions. We need incentives to people to reduce the number of children --particularly in the US. One child born in the US consumes many times the world's scarce resources than a child born in almost any other country.
One thing that the Obama administration could do is make it easier to obtain birth control pills. It no longer makes sense for women to have to go to a doctor to obtain prescriptions for birth control pills unless they have medical symptoms that could contribute to problems (high blood pressure, for example). The FDA should authorize pharmacies to be able to issue birth control pills based upon a few simple procedures. For example,
The patient would fill out a form on a terminal at the pharmacy and answer a series of questions about their health. Based upon the answers to the questions, the terminal would request the patient to have blood pressure taken, temperature taken, provide a blood sample (finger prick), or a urine sample. When the pharmacy receives acceptable response back from those tests, the prescription would be issued. If the patient has vital signs that are in "marginal category" the software may require repeated blood pressure, or fluid samples in order to obtain refills of the prescription. If answers to questions or lab tests are in "abnormal" category, the patient would be referred, of course, to a physician.
There are many other drugs in that category. It never made sense to me to require prescriptions for toenail fungus treatments for example. I believe that by using technology and allowing pharmacies to work directly with patients to manage a little of their own healthcare we could dramatically reduce the cost of healthcare in the US.
Justices rule on contraception coverage | UTSanDiego.com: Here is a link to the actual decision: http://www.scribd.com/doc/231968582/Burwell-v-Hobby-Lobby
So now employees who work for right-wing companies will no longer be able to get coverage for birth control. Of course men will still be able to get drugs to help them with impotency such as viagra. All of this is to support the right-wing desire for members of their religion to have more babies. The one thing the world doesn't need is MORE babies. Catholics want more babies, Mormons want more babies, Muslims want more babies, Hasidic Jews want more babies. They all want more children to help spread their "only true" religions. We need incentives to people to reduce the number of children --particularly in the US. One child born in the US consumes many times the world's scarce resources than a child born in almost any other country.
One thing that the Obama administration could do is make it easier to obtain birth control pills. It no longer makes sense for women to have to go to a doctor to obtain prescriptions for birth control pills unless they have medical symptoms that could contribute to problems (high blood pressure, for example). The FDA should authorize pharmacies to be able to issue birth control pills based upon a few simple procedures. For example,
The patient would fill out a form on a terminal at the pharmacy and answer a series of questions about their health. Based upon the answers to the questions, the terminal would request the patient to have blood pressure taken, temperature taken, provide a blood sample (finger prick), or a urine sample. When the pharmacy receives acceptable response back from those tests, the prescription would be issued. If the patient has vital signs that are in "marginal category" the software may require repeated blood pressure, or fluid samples in order to obtain refills of the prescription. If answers to questions or lab tests are in "abnormal" category, the patient would be referred, of course, to a physician.
There are many other drugs in that category. It never made sense to me to require prescriptions for toenail fungus treatments for example. I believe that by using technology and allowing pharmacies to work directly with patients to manage a little of their own healthcare we could dramatically reduce the cost of healthcare in the US.
