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Article: Birth control prices to increase at U. Illinois health center
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- April 5, 2007
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Megan McNamara
University Wire
04-05-2007
(Daily Illini) (U-WIRE) CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- About 39 percent of undergraduate women use oral contraceptives, according to the American College Health Association. Up until recently, they received them at discounted rates.
However, a new Medicaid rebate law has ended incentives for drug companies to sell oral contraceptives, or birth control pills, to colleges at discounted rates.
"Drug companies' profits would go way down now in selling to us, so they eliminated us from their discount plan," said Dr. David Lawrance, director of the University of Illinois' McKinley Health Center. "The pharmaceutical companies didn't tell anybody this was coming until ...