Discuss “No price control for birth control”

For college students, safe sex just got more expensive. Prices for prescription contraceptives have surged at student health centers across the country.

The recent Deficit Reduction Act (DRA), passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush, prevented the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from allowing universities to purchase hormonal birth control at discounted prices as they had been able to do in the past.

Prior to the DRA, student health centers were exempt from Medicaid laws that required companies to pay a certain amount of money back to the government to ensure that Medicaid patients were getting the lowest price for the drugs. This allowed drug companies to sell drugs in bulk to non profit clinics like student...