Would you be upset if your health insurance covered Viagra, but not birth control?

Question

carl: insurance should cover every form of contraceptive.

king midas: haven't been laid in a while huh?

anti: um, just because someone is on birth control does nit mean they're "banging 15 guys a night".

and here, viagra is very easy to get, many plans cover it while BC

is not so easy to obtain.

king midas: the poor girl!

kendrick: the pill is used for medical reasons. there are women that take it for other reasons other than birth control.

Answer 1

Yes, I would be. Viagra is intended for older men who have become impotent. However, may younger men who don't actually need Viagra are using it to enhance their sexual performance. I think there's something seriously wrong here. I don't see why I should have the choice of living in a sexless marriage or using a barrier method that can leak, break, or slip off simply because my insurance carrier has a problem with the idea of providing coverage for much more effective methods that would in the long run save them money. What's wrong with preventing pregnancy in the first place if the people involved don't want it or aren't ready at that particular time?

Answer 2

Yes, particularly since there's a whole slew of non-pregnancy related medical problems that are helped by hormonal contraception. I mean, obviously, birth control should be covered anyway, but when you need the d@mn pills so you aren't a pain-filled, emotional wreck for one or two days a month? Yeah. Then there are the conditions that some women have where a pregnancy would be, at best, horribly dangerous. Those women need effective birth control to save their lives.

Besides, it's more cost-effective. Pregnancies are expensive, then you've got a whole new person to cover, and goodness knows babies run up the bills. The pill would run the insurance company, at most, a few extra hundred dollars a year per woman.

Answer 3

My insurance partially helped to pay for my fertility treatments, so I wouldn't really get upset that viagra is covered if it serves the same purpose.

But I wonder how many men actually use viagara because they are having trouble getting their wives pregnant?

As some here have mentioned, birth control pills are often used for other conditions such as irregular bleeding. I actually went on birth control pills for that very reason. So I do believe that they should be covered by insurance, but not because viagra is covered.

Answer 4

Yes. Birth control pills are prescribed for other things besides contraception. They help regulate periods and that's important for women that have endometriosis, heavy periods, severe menstrual cramps, etc.
In the long run, prevention (contraception) is cheaper. (prenatal and post-natal care, another dependent on insurance, etc.) Viagra is not a medical necessity...and it's more expensive than most forms of birth control.

Some health insurance plans cover neither of these.

Answer 5

Viagra is the only prescription drug left covered in the White House. I can only guess why.

It's amazing that health insurance companies seem to focus on the act of sex over the consequences.

Answer 6

Yes, I would.

Incidentally, there are insurance companies that do this, and apparently the "reason" is that insurance only covers existing conditions; erectile dysfunction being an "existing condition," and birth control is a preventative medicine.

But really, wouldn't it be much cheaper for them to pay to "prevent" pregnancy, rather than pay for the subsequent pregnancy?

The brilliance of insurance companies.

Answer 7

In England it's the opposite...

Anyone can get pills, injections, barrier devices, etc. completely free of charge.

Viagra is charged about £40 (roughly $70) for about 4 or 5 pills. So, it may be an issue there but it's completely opposite here. Medical problems (impotancy) is ignored while banging 15 guys a night is condoned.

BTW, younger guys (in their 30s for example, and without shame in acknowledging this) may also need viagra on occasoin... especially if they've been in a very rough patch of their life.

Answer 8

There is no correlation between each of these. One is for a medical condition, and the other not.

Medicines to prevent hair loss would be an equivalent. It's amazing how illogical Gender politics have gotten. Feminists just want everything/supremacy.

*Cases of issues with cycles should be covered(and if people can use this to work around the system... that's good and more better for them).

Answer 9

I KNOW - that's perfectly awful! I know that American health insurance carriers get away with this. It leaves me speechless - I really haven't got the words...

Actually I do have the words, but they are all of the four-lettered variety...

edit: *Vianka*
The answer to your question is 'none'. Viagra's top customers are men over 50; the largest group of all are men over age 65, if I am not mistaken. 65 year old men are not interested in changing diapers on wailing babies.

Answer 10

I like how people assume women on birth control are promiscuous. Not the case, I know many women on BC for medical reasons, or just being the responsible one in a monogamous relationship.

On the topic of endometriosis, It is a painful condition, one my friends has it and from what she tells me it, its terriblely debilitating painful for her. She also uses sample packs of BC from her aunt cause she couldn't afford it otherwise.