Company I work for just affirmed that they view reproductive health as part of basic health services so will cover anything related if you happen to live in a shitty state.
I wonder if some similar reasoning could be applied on a national level and be rolled up into providing some of that sweet sweet commie healthcare.
A million lawsuits later
Nope
“Health care” for business.
Weird that health insurance didn’t even become available as a perk of general employment until the 80s; before then, it was $25 to walk into a doctor’s office @ more or less random & be seen that day, and pay maybe $5 for a shot and a prescription (this in a major metro). After that, they passed the Medical Profiteering Enablement Act, or whatever they called it, in ‘76. By ‘83, company-paid health insurance became expected for professionals; that meant way more paperwork & secretarial hours chasing insurance companies, and the boom in healthcare-cost expansion & specialization had begun, and rising costs for *every* act along the way meant that cash prices became irrelevant. Health insurance had become necessary - and a huge industry, driven as all industry is driven: to minimize costs at every turn, to maximize production in every way, to prevent loss wherever possible, and ultimately, to shift ALL costs and responsibilities AWAY from themselves…and onto their policyholders & providers - *and* on governments whose police forces receive as much as or more than 80% of state, city, or county funds. My old stomping ground, city police was most recently reported to have been receiving funding from the city - an amount
in excess of 91% of all city funds available for allotment.
Totally separate from the confiscation, seizure and etc auctions the police hold, or their share of fines processed by municipal courts, of course.
The point being that health care - once seen as available to all - is now about as available as a chicken sandwich from Popeye’s: it’s a profit center, now, and a cash-cow that never runs dry. The “health of the mother” was never more than a pretense, like w/ rape and incest. The camel’s nose, as they say.
The health of the mother is not important - nor is the health of the child: the dollar value of the required care to be extracted from *every* pregnancy - *THAT* is important.
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