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drst:

The beltway pundit class says the White House is in trouble on this. Reality check, guys, okay? Where the white house is on this issue is here. Hey, women of America, under a Democratic president your birth control pills will be covered by health insurance, and if you don’t have health insurance you can go to a clinic and get subsidized birth control there. If a republican is elected your insurance won’t cover birth control and if your insurance doesn’t cover it, there are no clinics to go to anymore to get birth control pills. Planned Parenthood: defunded. And Title X gone altogether. So you can’t get it from insurance, and you can’t get it from a clinic. You are paying cashing out of pocket retail cost for birth control. On top of what you pay for health care and insurance right now, American women, plan another 600 to $ 1200 a year cash outlay every year if you want to stay on birth control. That’s if you’re lucky, because if you’re not lucky you live in one of the states where birth control has just been declared illegal. do you want a democratic president or republican president, women of America? — Rachel Maddow, 2/7/12

Rachel knocked this one out of the park.

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