Pills are not relatively inexpensive. The last pill I was on cost $52 for four weeks. And if you are worried about economic efficiency, how about the fact that according to the Center For Disease Control's 2005 Survey of Vital and Health Statistics, nearly 30% of women have had either an unwanted pregnancy or a mistimed pregnancy. In many instances that leads to both mother and baby depending on the public healthcare system, i.e. tax dollars, to pay the medical expenses. The cost of providing insurance coverage of contraception would be minimal compared with what is spent in handling unwanted or mistimed prenancies.

You make two mistakes...One is assuming that almost every woman uses birth control. Approximately 62% of women use some method of contraception, and 22% of those women are using condoms or withdrawal.

Two - Actually, the cost wouldn't go up much at all. When the federal government added contraceptive coverage to its comprehensive prescription plan, they did so at no additional cost to the government or to employees. And it is estimated that at most, for employer provided plans, the cost would go up less than $2 per person per month.