A single payer healthcare system would remove the employer’s conscience from the decisions of women regarding their reproductive rights.  If we must protect the employers’ consciences, then that seems a better approach.  It gives women back the freedom of their own conscience.  For other benefits of a single payer system see the Youtube, FIX IT.

If women must assume the cost of contraceptives, perhaps it is time to make the Pill an over-the- counter drug. The pill has been used and prescribed long enough to have determined its safety and effectiveness for the public. Prescriptions require costly routine visits to the doctors' offices.  By now,  most otherwise healthy women would not require regular and close medical observation.  This would help reduce the medical cost burden placed on women by Trump's mandate.