8 Mar 2012 11:45 am
Who's Paying? Georgetown Undergraduates Pay Over $1800 Per Year for Health InsuranceThe right-wing noise machine has attempted to make the contraception argument about who "pays" for birth control, and Rush Limbaugh and commenters on Fox have gone so far as to claim that contraception advocates "want me to pay for them to have sex." The debate was instigated by concerns at Georgetown University, a Catholic institution that does not provide contraception through their student health insurance program. It is shocking to discover, then, that undergraduate students pay over $1800 per year for health insurance.Dear Student: The Premier Plan offered by Georgetown University is underwritten by the United HealthCare Insurance Company (United). Because you are responsible for understanding your health benefits, carefully read the enrollment and benefit details, including the Exclusions and Limitations, in the Premier Plan Description of Benefits, Policy #2011-32-1, before making an enrollment decision. Listed under exclusions:#19-b] Birth control and/or contraceptives, oral or other, whether medication or deviceSandra Fluke was only asking that contraceptives be covered by the insurance that students pay for.She never asked Rush or anyone else to 'pay for her to have sex'.Rush Limbaugh is a big fat liar.