Comment Re:Gee Catholic judges (Score 1) 1330
The mandate expanded the state of things from "Oh, you're poor, so you get the failure-prone pill because it's cheap"...
You got that backward, though. An IUD is considerably cheaper than the pill. The pill is popular in the US for the same reason that brand name drugs and freshly patented drugs are more popular than generics: pharmaceutical marketing and kickbacks to prescribing doctors.
The reasoning for the poor getting the pill is a gift to the pharma companies. Relative effectiveness was never even considered when making the decision.