Read 'Laura's' Story About Her Insurance Denying Coverage for the Birth Control Pill
When I was 42 I became pregnant with a VERY wanted child. Sadly this pregnancy did not work out as the fetus died at approximately 12 weeks of pregnancy. To make things worse I didn't miscarry, the fetus died and stayed inside my uterus.
My ObGyn had to do a D&C to remove the dead fetus and protect my health. I had large fibroids and it was a difficult procedure. To top things off, when I went home after the D&C my uterus would not stop bleeding.
After two days my doctor became concerned and prescribed birth control pills to me and let me know that when I began taking the pills my body should stop the bleeding (I was now getting dangerously anemic).
A friend went to pick up my prescription and my health insurance company refused to cover the prescription, because it was for birth control pills, regardless of the fact that it was to save my life, to stop uterine bleeding.
My friend came back and got the money from me to pay for the birth control pills that my insurance company refused to cover. The birth control pills worked. The bleeding stopped.
What Ohio has set up now is totally unfair. What right has any insurance company to decide whether or not contraception is covered for whatever reason it may be used (whether family planning, or in my case to save a life). For goodness sakes, if you get a prescription for an allergy medication it is covered. No one has the right to interfere in what a doctor and a patient decide together regarding a patients health care or family planning.
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