It’s amazing how this argument only applies to female-specific care. Somehow no one ever suggests that women shouldn’t have to pay for coverage that includes prostate exams and vasectomies.

Oh, I know. My company’s insurance was already getting crappier and crappier before ACA and they made it a point to say that employees as a whole were going to the ER too often...and I seriously doubt most of the employees were at or below the poverty line. They just didn’t give a crap and went to the ER for the flu.

I don’t think you understand how insurance works. You buy it to cover things that might actually happen to you. The insurance is then priced accordingly. You don’t pay the same car insurance rate as a guy that owns a Ferrari if you own a Honda. You don’t buy flood insurance if you live on a hill in a desert. Why…

Well, you’re a fine upstanding citizen. One of the reasons insurance companies put in things like only 2 ER visits a year is because many people living at or below the poverty line go to the ER as a first resort, namely because they don’t have insurance and no ER is going to turn them away. That, and they don’t have…