what it says now is instead of the employers, those institutions providing that coverage, it s on the backs of the insurance companies, and incidentally because contraception coverage saves insurance costs by about 15 to 17% total it actually reduces the overall bill. it means no one in effect is paying for it, the insurance company is providing it. heather: no one is paying for it? brad, somebody is paying for it. heather, heather, this is exactly what democrats want everybody to believe that everything is free, that the government, if they provide the service or mandate the service to be provided that nobody has to pay for it. yeah, you know who pays for it? everybody else pays for it and it s wrong. and when sally talks about, well, the catholic church is really not hurt by this. it is hurt by this. because it is a mandate by the federal government, and they shouldn t be involved in these type of decisions in hospitals or other institutions that are
repeatedly refused her contraception coverage claims and verification from her doctor. it didn t matter. she had to pay out of pocket about $100 a month for her month after month after month and eventually she just couldn t afford it like many students just cannot afford that kind of a cost. she had to stop taking it. i have to tell you, so what happened is that after a few months of her not taking the prescription, a massive cyst grew on her ovary and she woke up one night in the middle of the night in excruciating pain and told me it felt like she had been shot. i can t imagine what that felt like for her. what ultimately happen is she had to have that ovary surgically removed. as a result of that she would have problems conceiving a child but even more it just hasn t stopped for her.
women affected by this policies whose lives were affected. one of the women i wanted to talk about today is a close friend of mine. she needs to take contraception for medical reason to prevent cysts from growing on her ovaries and not to prevent pregnancy. that technically means it should be covered on georgetown student health insurance which does not cover contraception for prevention of pregnancy but unfortunately when university administrators and employers and insurance companies get involved in deciding whose health needs are legitimate and whose aren t, what happens is women s health needs take a back seat to that type of ideology and that s what happened in her case and we found that that happens in 65% of the female students cases so for her she was unable they repeatedly refused her contraception coverage claims and verification from her
of people feel that it was resolved decades ago because so many women rely on it, not just for contraception but many other medical issues, what about the question of a young georgetown university woman who wanted to testify on that panel yesterday? this is what she had to say online about her motivation? i wanted to talk about the effects on women of the lack of contraception coverage. unfortunately the chairman felt that the topic of contraception was not relevant to a debate about a contraception policy. he specifically stated that i would not be allowed to speak because i was not qualified to. when arranging the hearings, you have been a chairman of committees over the years, what is the role of the chairman and of the minority in trying get witnesses who are able to
for her she was unable they repeatedly refused her contraception coverage claims and verification from her doctor. it didn t matter. she had to pay out of pocket about $100 a month for her month after month after month and eventually she just couldn t afford it like many students just cannot afford that kind of a cost. she had to stop taking it. i have to tell you, so what happened is that after a few months of her not taking the prescription, a massive cyst grew on her ovary and she woke up one night in the middle of the night in excruciating pain and told me it felt like she had been shot. i can t imagine what that felt like for her. what ultimately happen is she had to have that ovary surgically removed. as a result of that she would have problems conceiving a child but even more it just hasn t