Think Progress, The FACTS about the cost of birth control

Think Progress, The FACTS about the cost of birth control

The FACTS about the cost of birth control

• Oral contraceptives, or “the pill,” can cost $1,210 per year without health insurance.
   
• Women of reproductive age spend 68 percent more on out-of-pocket health care costs than do men, in part because of contraceptive costs.

• Surveys show that nearly one in four women with household incomes of less than $75,000 have put off a doctor’s visit for birth control to save money in the past year.

• Twenty-nine percent of women report that they have tried to save money by using their method inconsistently.

• More than half of young adult women say they have not used their method as directed because it was cost-prohibitive.

• Nearly half of women ages 18–34 with household incomes less than $75,000 report they need to delay or limit their childbearing because of economic hardships they’ve experienced in recent years.

(Source: americanprogress.org)