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[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 2 points 22 minutes ago

Health Insurance needs to not exist and Universal Healthcare juts cover all the stuff people need to stay healthy and live productive lives. From sexual healthcare to mental healthcare and of course medicine and anything else you'd need to see a doctor or medical professional for.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 1 points 8 minutes ago

In France you can just pick up condom packs for free at any drug store if you are under 26

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Can we pick the brand? I don't want no thinkass rubber balloons.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 43 minutes ago

And size :-/

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago

Is that like the new ThinkPad?

[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The condom part is silly.

Cost and availability aren't barriers to condom usage. They sell 36 packs of condoms at Walmart for like $15. Basically every single convenience store sells them for prices that, while massively inflated, are pretty low in the grand scheme of things. Most college health centers give them out for free.

The reason people don't wear them is because doing it raw just feels better.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 59 minutes ago* (last edited 57 minutes ago)

For some, that’s less than a month’s supply.

For many people price is a barrier. One which has no need to exist, and only exists because for some reason Christian bosses don’t want to recognize that their employees have sex, and get all weird about it.

College health centers usually only hand them out to their students. Do you think people stop having sex after they graduate?

This is besides the fact that the best way to reduce abortions and unwanted pregnancies on the whole is to provide and encourage contraceptives. One way to do that is make condoms and contraception covered by healthcare.

Edit to add: man, I get enough awkwardness buying my partner’s tampons if she needs a top-off. I certainly don’t want her knowing my dick size.

[–] SilentFury@lemm.ee 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

If you are a laborer and not an owner or a board member then I don't give a fuck what your job is, you deserve to get paid more. Wages have been stagnant for 50 years, but labor value has increased 3 fold. For non owners everyone needs their salaries tripled just to get us back on track.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 59 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Well if we want to have them cover IVF then they should cover the opposite and preventing pregnancy. I just wonder what the limit will be on condoms, for those that fuck it might not be enough.

Your insurance covers 1 per month, uhh when I was 18 that was good for a year.

[–] NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Oregon has a program that will let you order 20 a month shipped to your door

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago

I mean, free to order and a limited supply sounds like a good way to have people who actually use and want them.

Easy, free but inconvenient enough you won't do it for the hell of it.

[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.world 25 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like a good idea, I don't see why not. Now if only I had health insurance...

[–] GluWu@lemm.ee 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I finally got insurance. Now if only I had sex.

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

Now if only we can bundle them together.

new progressive comersal insues "With our new bundle we bundled intamacy and pation with your boat insurance"

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

When I was a teen, the nearest health center was a LBGT-friendly one. And we got LOTS of free condoms.

Of course, I didn't actually use any until much later in life. But still...

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I used to volunteer for planned parenthood and they gave me all sorts of condom goodies to hand out wherever I went. I’m asexual so it was fun for me to swat down men asking if they could use them on me! “Do you want the free awesome condoms, or do you want to piss off the safe sex fairy? That’s what I thought. Go have fun now.”

Around Halloween, condoms taped to a stick like a sucker. Actually year round for fun. Those were always a big hit at parties. “Hey want a sucker? This will make it safe!”

Xmas, they had red and green flavored condoms. Red was peppermint green was fruity.

Going to a convention they would ship me with several hundred glittery shiny package condoms. I had an alligator clip necklace for those shiny bitches. Got so much love for it.

You name it, they did it with condoms. Because why the hell not make it fun??

Sadly I’m too old to social these days (jk I’m just not an event person anymore). Or I’d keep it up for sure.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

Inevitably it will only be covered by Medicare, commence pulling apart the grilled cheese sandwich.