{"id":103785,"date":"2017-05-30T10:46:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T17:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=103785"},"modified":"2017-05-30T10:48:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T17:48:08","slug":"pay-more-for-birth-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/pay-more-for-birth-control\/","title":{"rendered":"You Might Have to Start Paying More for Your Birth Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the possible replacement of the current health care plan (aka Obamacare) by the GOP&#8217;s new American Health Care Act (AHCA), birth control and women&#8217;s health has become a hotter topic now more than ever.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been dependent on Medicaid or Planned Parenthood for your contraceptives, you&#8217;re about to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allure.com\/story\/how-much-birth-control-womens-health-care-could-cost-under-ahca\" target=\"_blank\">pay a whole lot more for birth control<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The AHCA has the potential to retract birth control benefits with the huge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/paulmcleod\/the-republican-obamacare-replacement-bill-is-back-but-maybe?utm_term=.ytGbZA3VAW#.qmkXrPYDP9\" target=\"_blank\">cut in government funding<\/a> for Medicaid and Planned Parenthood. With <a href=\"http:\/\/elitedaily.com\/women\/heres-much-birth-control-may-cost-ahca\/1893403\/\" target=\"_blank\">43% of Planned Parenthood&#8217;s budget<\/a> coming from federal grants (in 2015), that&#8217;s almost half of the budget that could be lost.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how much you can expect to pay for birth control with the new health care plan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/elitedaily.com\/women\/heres-much-birth-control-may-cost-ahca\/1893403\/\" target=\"_blank\">Birth control pills<\/a>: $50\/month<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amino.com\/blog\/heres-how-much-women-could-pay-for-preventive-care-under-the-ahca\/\" target=\"_blank\">IUD<\/a>: $1000<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amino.com\/blog\/heres-how-much-women-could-pay-for-preventive-care-under-the-ahca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pap smear<\/a>: $200<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allure.com\/story\/how-much-birth-control-womens-health-care-could-cost-under-ahca\" target=\"_blank\">HPV shots<\/a> (full series): $960<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/elitedaily.com\/women\/heres-much-birth-control-may-cost-ahca\/1893403\/\" target=\"_blank\">Implant<\/a>: $800<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/elitedaily.com\/women\/heres-much-birth-control-may-cost-ahca\/1893403\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nuvaring<\/a>: $80\/month<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/elitedaily.com\/women\/heres-much-birth-control-may-cost-ahca\/1893403\/\" target=\"_blank\">Depo-Provera shot<\/a>: $250<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amino.com\/blog\/heres-how-much-women-could-pay-for-preventive-care-under-the-ahca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tubal ligation<\/a>: $4,000<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amino.com\/blog\/heres-how-much-women-could-pay-for-preventive-care-under-the-ahca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mammogram<\/a>: $250<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What are your thoughts on the effects the new health care plan will have on birth control prices? Weigh in on the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"With the possible replacement of the current health care plan (aka Obamacare) by the GOP's ...","author":1427020,"featured_media":103927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/26172004\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-26-at-5.19.06-PM-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/26172004\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-26-at-5.19.06-PM.jpg","formated_date":"May 30, 2017","category_name":"News","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113842\/news.svg","author_name":"","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#8036c4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1427020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}