The governement can get rational when they have to foot the bill. I wish they would do the same thing with antibiotics.
tfast http://www.cdnbp.blogspot.com/
----- Original Message ----- From: <info at pulpculture.org> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 8:46 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] "Plan B, " emergency contraception, why theright hates it
> At 08:35 AM 5/4/2006, tfast wrote:
> >Actually I read the blog and I was kind of shocked. In Canada you just
go
> >to the pharmacy and purchase it, no doctor no perscription just cash.
> >
> >tfast
>
> When sonshine's friend and new GF had an accident recently, we helped them
> call around about Plan B. For one thing, neither of these kids even knew
> about it. *sigh*
> All of the actually doctor's offices charged $89 for it and part of the
> visit would include a pregnancy test -- which seemed kind of dumb to me
> since the hormone your body produces that the test looks for doesn't
> typically show up 'til 10 days after conception. so, it was just an added
> procedure and expense, not to mention waste of time.
>
> At one point, we called a place that billed itself as City Name Women's
> Health Clinic since it was located near the kid's GF's place of work. The
> woman at City Name Women's Health Clinic had never heard of "plan b" or
> "the morning after pill" or "emergency contraception." I keep hoping that
> it was just that she was new to the job.
>
> This country is FUBAR. In France, the nurses in high schools hand out free
> doses.
>
>
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