NH Democrats are AGAINST women having more access to birth control - Granite Grok

NH Democrats are AGAINST women having more access to birth control

birthcontrolYesterday Senator Kelly Ayotte announced a new bill that she and Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) are introducing that will “help increase access to safe and effective contraceptives.” The bill is called “The Allowing Greater Access to Safe and Effective Contraception Act” and part of the intention is to allow drug companies to more easily and readily get birth control that is widely used into the Over-the-Counter (OTC) market rather than only available by prescription.

Another extremely important part of the bill is that it will repeal the prohibitions put into place by Obamacare that don’t allow women to purchase OTC medicine with their Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), medical savings accounts and Health Savings Accounts (HSA). Before Obamacare, people could use their accounts (which is their own money) to purchase anything healthcare related which included OTC medicines like cough medicine and birth control along with band aids and medicines for children. Obamacare ended what Americans were allowed to purchase with their own money. From Ayotte’s announcement:

Our legislation will help increase women’s access to safe and effective contraceptives and further empower women to make their own health care decisions,” said Ayotte. “In addition, our bill restores the ability of Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts to be used to purchase over-the-counter medications, giving women more purchasing power.

This sounds pretty great right? Not according to the New Hampshire Democrat Party. They also released a statement today that shows they are clearly against Ayotte’s bill which means they are against making it easier for women to get birth control:

Kelly Ayotte’s misleading over-the-counter birth control proposal may sound good, but it’s not. Right now, women can get birth control at no cost thanks to the Affordable Care Act. But Ayotte’s “plan” would force women to pay $600 per year more in out-of-pocket costs, costing women more than $480 million a year across the country.

As usual, Democrats are lying. Ayotte’s proposed legislation isn’t changing that birth control is covered in Obamacare, she’s simply aiding drug companies to provide birth control OTC which will enable even more women to have access to birth control 24/7. Isn’t that what Democrats pretend they believe in? Clearly not. Democrats literally ran their last campaigns on their belief that woman think with their ‘lady parts’. Suddenly that isn’t so important.

Millions of women are still uninsured even though Obamacare is law. Small business owners and women who don’t qualify for Medicaid and cannot afford Obamacare would benefit from popular forms of birth control being readily available over-the-counter. Is it that Democrats think women are too stupid to make their own healthcare decisions? They claim that no one should come in between a woman and her healthcare decisions yet isn’t that exactly what they did when they voted for Obamacare? This OTC option would be a welcome addition to millions of women across the country.

The FSA and HSA changes alone will be more than welcome by women and anyone else who uses them. These programs were good until Democrats decided to destroy them with Obamacare. That New Hampshire Democrats don’t support making these healthcare options better for Americans is telling. That New Hampshire Democrats don’t support other avenues of birth control for women proves they don’t care at all about women. As usual, Democrats pretend they want to make women’s lives better but in reality they always make their lives worse.

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