Students pinched by birth control pill costs

Federal legislation has forced Cal Poly’s clinic to triple its prices; two senators hope to help

By Nick Wilson

Cal Poly’s Health and Counseling Services has seen the cost of contraceptives triple in recent months, according to center Director Martin Bragg.

The higher cost, he said, is the result of 2005 federal legislation that barred university health clinics from access to lower-priced drugs.
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With the cost of college, plus or minus campus residence, meal plans and books running from $8,000 at a state school to over $40,000, for a 10 month year, that breaks down to $800 to $4,000 per month. Her cost is 0.03125 to 0.00628 percent of the monthly hit. Five beers in a FB emporium pays for the pills. So does one less lid.

Paying for the pill with a modest shrinkage in drink and dope purchases, sleeping in her own bed alone every other weekend and maybe even studying has a salutatory on the wallet as well as health costs.

One also has a low to no cost option for pregnancy protection called abstention; additionally, this has no failure rate.

Bragg said “thousands” of Cal Poly students seek birth control from the university’s health services center. He said he didn’t have specific numbers, but he estimates a month’s supply of birth control pills now costs Cal Poly students about $25.

That amount isn’t as much as the monthly supply of $40 to $50 for pills in other parts of the country, but it’s more than the $5 to $10 per month that once was standard.

“Students are feeling the increased costs,” he said.
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More of the samo-samo noise from the tykes, I want—you pay. If the ancillary costs of education are so severe, a lifestyle change is in order. Would 10 years of honest labor help pay for the privilege of education? A couple of hitches in the service alleviate the urge to merge promiscuously while kicking the infantile gimmes.

“When you look at the data of the termination of pregnancies, this is money well spent,” he said. “The cost of terminating pregnancies or the cost of an unwanted child to society is much higher.”

Not having the brains to avoid the problem of pregnancy, suggests two conclusions. One is the inordinate waste of money on sex education in the elementary and high schools. The other one drawn is that these individuals are too stupid to be educated and should be sold into some Middle East harem.

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