College Students to Pay More for Birth Control Pills
March 24th, 2007Pharmaceutical contraception is one of the most diabolical—and profitable—scams of all.
This might fall into the “more info than you ever wanted to know” category, but my wife and I use the Ladycomp, a clinically tested and registered medical device from Germany. That thing works, as advertised. It is the Porsche of birth control methods (they also have a “conception” version with extra bells and whistles), and your wife or girlfriend doesn’t have to take any dangerous pills at all. She just takes her temperature each morning with an oral thermometer and the computer automatically determines when she can get pregnant, and when she can’t. As effective as the dangerous pill, minus the dangerous pill.
I know. You don’t believe it. Surely, your doctor would have told you about it if it was real…
Via: CNN:
Millions of college students are suddenly facing sharply higher prices for birth control, prompting concerns among health officials that some will shift to less preferred contraceptives or stop using them altogether.
Prices for oral contraceptives, or birth control pills, are doubling and tripling at student health centers, the result of a complex change in the Medicaid rebate law that essentially ends an incentive for drug companies to provide deep discounts to colleges.
“It’s a tremendous problem for our students because not every student has a platinum card,” said Hugh Jessop, executive director of the health center at Indiana University.
There, he said, women are paying about $22 per month for prescriptions that cost $10 a few months ago. “Some of our students have two jobs, have children,” Jessop said. “To increase this by 100 percent or more overnight, which is what happened, is a huge shock to them and to their system.”
At some schools women could see prices rise several hundred dollars per year.
About 39 percent of undergraduate women use oral contraceptives, according to an estimate by the American College Health Association based on survey data.
OK, I will fall in the trap … Why aren’t you and Becky procreating? Don’t we need more of your kind, and less of the jesus-nut-neocon-dimwit type?
(Kevin, I am not telling you to have children, I’m just wondering why you aren’t doing so in such a lovely environment, because I’d want about nine kids running around such a farm.)
Kev,
What’s it take for batteries? Might be worth getting some solar-rechargeable ones if that’s what it runs on.
Kevin,
This method has been around for some time. I read about it in a book 20 years ago. Furthermore, you don’t actually need a computer -just the info, and then the lady charts her temperature. After about a year of charting temps, you can tell by the time of the month if you’re fertile or not. After that you can supposedly stop charting and just check the calender. Or so its supposed to work, and my friends who use the method say its never failed.
Birth control pills are a scam. I was put on them several years ago, when I was a college freshman, because of some “female problems” I was having. The doc say it would help. The damn things nearly killed me. Never, ever, again.
Whoa! Natural Family Planning which puts the woman in charge.
Hi Ann,
>>>you don’t actually need a computer -just the info, and then the lady charts her temperature.
Becky actually charts her temperature, on paper, using the Ladycomp data. If a woman has a thermometer that reads to 1/100th of a degree, she could do it very accurately, without the German engineering.
However, IF you want a clinically proven pearl index of .7, the Ladycomp is the way.
But certainly, there are other, less expensive, ways of going. Like I said, the Ladycomp, “is the Porsche of birth control methods.” That’s not to say that the Porsche is the only car on the road.
So, let’s be explicit about how women can get results.
It’s all about mucus, cycle days and temperature. There are lots of materials out there, but this book covers it all. Used copies are available for 1 cent right now on Amazon:
Your Fertility Signals: Using Them to Achieve or Avoid Pregnancy Naturally by Merryl Winstein
Cycle beads
are helpful.
Charting software can help keep track of the basal body temperature data.
Becky also recommends: The Garden of Fertility: A Guide to Charting Your Fertility Signals to Prevent or Achieve Pregnancy Naturally and to Gauge Your Reproductive Health by Katie Singer
I hope that’s some useful stuff.
Matt,
Our older unit uses a little AC transformer that sends 9V dc to the system. It has an internal rechargeable battery that maintains the clock. The unit can easily run on batteries. Data is written to a chip, so there’s no risk of data loss when power is removed for long periods of time.
Current Ladycomp/Babycomp models, however, use an internal battery pack and come with an AC charger that works anywhere from 100 to 240 volts.
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We use this (and love it), bought via your recommendation. Thank you!
…some friends of ours have asked for further reading. Know of any links to the clinical studies you mentioned, on the devices performance?
Hi West,
Glad to hear that you like the Ladycomp. Here are a list of the clinical studies:
http://www.raxmedical.com/studies.php