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Paying Too High a Price? A Diagnosis for Over-the-Counter Contraception

By Myra Batchelder, National Institute for Reproductive Health

January 29, 2009 - 8:00am

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Do you get tired of having to visit your doctor to get a prescription for birth control pills? Would your life be easier if you could just walk into a pharmacy, pick up a packet of pills, pay and walk out? Think about it: what would happen if instead of just paying a co-pay for your pills or obtaining the pills for free through your public health insurance program, you had to pay for the full price of the drug?

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