{"id":12779,"date":"2019-01-10T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T19:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=12779"},"modified":"2019-12-24T11:04:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T19:04:13","slug":"otc-contraceptives-now-covered-by-insurance-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/10\/otc-contraceptives-now-covered-by-insurance-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"OTC Contraceptives Now Covered By Insurance in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/slog\/2019\/01\/10\/37856236\/over-the-counter-contraceptives-are-now-free-for-washingtonians-with-insurance\">this is interesting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  As of January 1, 2019, all Washingtonians with state-regulated insurance can now pick up over-the-counter contraceptives for free at their in-network pharmacies, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurance.wa.gov\/reproductive-health-benefits\">Office of the Insurance Commissioner<\/a>. Those contraceptives include &#8220;condoms, spermicides, emergency contraceptives, and sponges.&#8221;<br>\n  \u00a0<br>\n  So\u2014if you&#8217;re not on Medicaid, and if you don&#8217;t work for a mega-company that self-insures\u2014then you can just stroll into a Walgreens (or a Rite Aid, or whatever pharmacy is in your network), walk up to the pharmacy counter, and ask for some Plan B, some condoms, or whatever a &#8220;sponge&#8221; is, and they&#8217;ll give it to you for freeeeeee.<br>\n  \u00a0<br>\n  You can also get sterilized or get a vasectomy for free. No copays and no deductibles. You can just walk into your doctor&#8217;s office and get snipped!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a fan of the &#8220;whatever a &#8216;sponge&#8217; is&#8221; bit (c&#8217;mon, Stranger, this is base-level contraceptive knowledge, and whether that was serious or snark, is a stupid line), and I&#8217;d bet that women would still have far more difficulties with sterilization procedures than &#8220;walk into your doctor&#8217;s office and get snipped&#8221; \u2014\u00a0for men, of course, it likely would be about that easy \u2014\u00a0but still. Good news!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of January 1, 2019, all Washingtonians with state-regulated insurance can now pick up over-the-counter contraceptives for free at their in-network pharmacies, according to the Office of the Insurance Commissioner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}