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Lots of plans that cover Viagra also cover birth control. But are any plans required to cover Viagra?
It is the required part that is at issue. She definitely doesn't deserve to be called a slut or any other names.
But I have some sympathy for the question of whether it should be part of a government mandate that no copay be the minimal acceptable coverage for prescriptions.
I'd also say it is a sign of how broken having insurance be (generally) tied to employment is stupid, since once employed it pretty much creates a monopoly situation. Whereas if everybody who mandated to buy their own insurance on an exchange with certain price points, if contraceptive coverage is desired, and it really is cheaper in the end for the insurers as many claim (or isn't significantly more expensive), then it would become a point of competitive advantage for some insurance to cover it while a "conscientious objector" insurance plan can die on the vine if that means nobody wants it.
But instead we insist on putting a disinterested (for the most part) middleman in the equation and the employer is only going to care about cost.
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