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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on February 20, 2012, 04:43:17 PM
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kpete
5 sexual health services insurance WILL cover… for MEN
Last edited Mon Feb 20, 2012, 12:15 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
The fact of the matter is that health insurance covers all manner of “things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be,†when it comes to men, and no one has any real complaints about insurance coverage that allows men to continue having sex for non-procreative reasons and despite medical conditions that would otherwise prevent it. Most of them are actually far more expensive than hormonal birth control or intrauterine devices, the two methods of contraception that House and Senate Republicans now want all employers to be able to prevent their insurance companies from covering in employee health insurance packages. Five things that health insurers — including, in some cases, the federal government — currently cover for men’s reproductive tracts.
1. Erectile dysfunction drugs
From Viagra to Cialis, if a man has trouble getting or maintaining an erection (a common occurrence with age or with certain diseases), a pharmaceutical company has a $15 pill for that. And, in many cases, the man’s insurance company picks up the tab.
2. Vacuum erection devices
Famously covered by Medicare (as well as some private insurance companies), men with erectile dysfunction that won’t or can’t go the pill route do have a another option. Though it first raised eyebrows in Austin Powers and is better known as a masturbatory aide, vacuum erection devices do work as advertised by will cost insurance companies $300-$500 a pop.
3. Penile implants
If a man’s erectile dysfunction can’t be mitigated with pharmaceuticals or vacuum devices, there’s yet another method insurance companies will pay for afflicted men to try: penile implants. Though most urologists tend to use more modern inflatable models, which require users to manually inflate their own erections, some urologists hew to the older semi-rigid models despite their potential complications. Either way, the $10,000-$20,000 cost of the implants is often covered by insurance, particularly if the erectile dysfunction is the result of a disease or a side effect of surgery.
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MORE:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/20/5-sexual-health-services-insurance-will-cover-for-men/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002331470
As usual the DUmmies are clueless. No one that I know of has a problem if an insurance company provides benefits for birth control pills.They have turned this issue into something that it isn't.
Maybe if I explain it this way the dummies will grasp this, let's say for argument sake that the government mandates that every pay day your employer must pay for and give you a six pack of beer, the company you work for is owned by a recovering alcoholic and he wants nothing to do with this, so you goons run and cry and say that your boss is supporting prohibition, when all that is going on, is your boss doesn't want to finance your drinking.
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And it should be free. Just like everything else. Libthink.
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And not a damned one of those things are provided FREE.
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How come they never ask if the catholic church would pay for a vasectomy?
My guess is: because they already know the answer and it ruins their "war against women" lie.
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0bama mandated that all of those were to be given away for free?
No I didn't think so. Lord Almighty this collection of imbeciles at the DUmp certainly have no fear of proving what everyone thinks of them everyday.
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Erectile dysfunction drug are not covered by most health insurance plans. Me thinks the OP pulled these facts from his lower torso.
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Erectile dysfunction is a dysfunction. Something in the body is not working as it should. It's a defect, or a symptom.
Pregnancy is not an illness. Birth control is not correcting an health issue with the body. In fact, the pill very well could be causing damage.
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I went to the linked story. I saw 3 issues represented by 5 numbers...
As Terry mentioned, when the body isn't working properly, that is a problem.
Non-permanent male birth control options are still limited to condoms, the Vatican-approved rhythm method and the Biblically-condemned pull-out method.
I can think of at least 3 others, including the abstaining that according to libs is entirely unpossible.