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Article: New law drives up price of birth control at UNL.
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- Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE)
- Article date:
- March 28, 2007
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Byline: Matthew Hansen
Mar. 28--LINCOLN -- Alyssa Schuettler walked into the University of Nebraska-Lincoln pharmacy this month expecting to pay around $12 for a month's worth of birth control. She walked out $38 poorer, the victim of a new federal law that has sent the cost of birth control soaring on many college campuses.
She walked out annoyed.
"All of a sudden, it's three times as much," the 22-year-old Lincoln native said. "Just like that."
Female students at UNL and colleges nationwide are paying for a seemingly minor change in the Medicaid law that essentially stopped drug companies from offering discounted prices to colleges.