President Obama----Wait What did he just say ???? Emphasis mine.. “It’s a lot cheaper to prevent an illness than to treat one … [and] preventive care should include coverage of contraceptive services such as birth control,” the president said in brief remarks in the White House press room.

President Barack Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius leave the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb., 10, 2012, after the president announced the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Obama----Wait What did he just say ???? Emphasis mine..

“It’s a lot cheaper to prevent an illness than to treat one … [and] preventive care should include coverage of contraceptive services such as birth control,” the president said in brief remarks in the White House press room.

Even when Obama championed the claim that women have a moral right to use birth control, he talked about biological health, not of moral freedom. “Every woman should be in control of the decisions that affect her own health,” he said.

White House officials also justified the far-reaching policy by saying it would cost nothing, and therefore would impose no real burden on religious organizations.

“Covering contraception saves money for insurance companies by keeping women healthy and preventing spending on other health services,” said a White House statement released Feb. 10.

White House and Democratic officials also cited a 2006 report from an advocacy group, the Business Group on Health, which said companies could cut their health-related expenses by providing free birth control services to their employees.

“The average cost of adding coverage for all reversible methods of contraception,” the report said, “is $25.31 per employee, per year. … Researchers estimate that over a 5-year period, employers can save $9,000 to $14,000 (in year 1993 dollars) by providing comprehensive contraceptive coverage.”

Some members of Obama’s progressive base use the same dollars-and-cents language. On Feb. 3, for example, a poster on Obama’s campaign website said that a lack of contraception causes many additional births, and the “cost of those births, and the potential gross saving from helping women to avert them, is estimated at $11.1 billion.”

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