Not surprisingly, all in the name of money:
As a result of the price hike, publicly funded clinics from Maine to New Mexico are running short on popular contraception products, scrambling to find reasonably priced generics, and scaling back on the choices they offer low-income women. Chronically underfunded, the clinics are in no shape to absorb this blow, especially now. The number of women in need of subsidized contraception is rising, while new and expensive advances in screening and prevention, like the HPV vaccine, are coming on line.
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So a private company, that was basically giving away its product in the past, (presumably at its loss but on the hope that ultimately that would build its brands) decides to actually charge for its product (and a whopping $0.75 a day, if the story is right), and suddenly they are greedy? Well, Slate is officially the outlet for the entitlement set. Cry me a river. What an awful violation of human rights and standards of decency. So patients who receive greatly subsidized health care, even free care, have cause to complain because a private company won’t give away its wares for free also? I am not moved to sympathize here. What next, free housing and food? (never mind)
Or it may be because birth control pill manufacturers are being sued.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-08-23-drug-lawsuits-usat_x.htm
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