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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums5 sexual health services insurance WILL cover… for MEN
The fact of the matter is that health insurance covers all manner of things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be, when it comes to men, and no one has any real complaints about insurance coverage that allows men to continue having sex for non-procreative reasons and despite medical conditions that would otherwise prevent it. Most of them are actually far more expensive than hormonal birth control or intrauterine devices, the two methods of contraception that House and Senate Republicans now want all employers to be able to prevent their insurance companies from covering in employee health insurance packages. Five things that health insurers including, in some cases, the federal government currently cover for mens reproductive tracts.1. Erectile dysfunction drugs
From Viagra to Cialis, if a man has trouble getting or maintaining an erection (a common occurrence with age or with certain diseases), a pharmaceutical company has a $15 pill for that. And, in many cases, the mans insurance company picks up the tab.
2. Vacuum erection devices
Famously covered by Medicare (as well as some private insurance companies), men with erectile dysfunction that wont or cant go the pill route do have a another option. Though it first raised eyebrows in Austin Powers and is better known as a masturbatory aide, vacuum erection devices do work as advertised by will cost insurance companies $300-$500 a pop.
3. Penile implants
If a mans erectile dysfunction cant be mitigated with pharmaceuticals or vacuum devices, theres yet another method insurance companies will pay for afflicted men to try: penile implants. Though most urologists tend to use more modern inflatable models, which require users to manually inflate their own erections, some urologists hew to the older semi-rigid models despite their potential complications. Either way, the $10,000-$20,000 cost of the implants is often covered by insurance, particularly if the erectile dysfunction is the result of a disease or a side effect of surgery.
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5 sexual health services insurance WILL cover… for MEN (Original Post)
kpete
Feb 2012
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When I see the same beady-eyed attention focused on boner-in-a-bottle drugs (Please provide proof that you are going to use any resulting erection solely for procreative sex in a monogamous marital relationship, or no Mr. Happy pill for you, you slutty degenerate), then I'll believe the Repressive Right's "concern" over women and their access to birth control doesn't have a strictly misogynistic component.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)2. each should require an anal ultrasound.