Can anyone answer a question about Birth Control and Payments and all the controversy

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4. Except that health insurance isn't quite like groceries

Women who have access to birth control are on balance healthier than women who don't have that access. That is, over the course of her lifetime, a woman on birth control uses fewer resources. The cost to cover a woman is therefore lower because birth control is covered. Watch for the next big "religious freedom" stink to come when employers who don't offer insurance covering birth control find they have to pay a higher premium than employers who do offer insurance that covers birth control, because of the increased costs.