Katie Couric's Notebook: The Pill

Posted by Katie Couric, Couric & Co. May 13, 2010 7:00 PM


Excerpt:

According to the Guttmacher Institute, roughly 17.4 million low-income women need publicly-funded contraception but only 9.4 million are receiving it. As many as 8 million lack adequate care.

 

Planned Parenthood and other groups are trying to address this gap by encouraging the government to define contraception as preventive medicine, so it's covered under health care reform at little or no cost to the patient.

 

Insurance companies might balk at that idea, but with half of all pregnancies still unplanned, it deserves careful consideration.

 

After 50 years of safe, effective birth control, it's too easy to overlook those who can't afford it. We've come a long way, baby... but not far enough.

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Very interesting facts.

I hope it gets categorized as preventative medicine.