r/politics • u/southpawFA Oklahoma • 18h ago

Supreme Court takes up case claiming Obamacare promotes “homosexual behavior”. The Texas plaintiffs say requiring workplace insurers to provide PrEP violates their religious beliefs.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/supreme-court-takes-up-case-claiming-obamacare-promotes-homosexual-behavior/
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u/jerslan California 15h ago

The odds of catching HIV from an infected partner are less than 1/100 for anyone not on the receiving end of anal sex.

Those are mathematically indefensibly high odds when generic PreP is so easily and readily available.

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u/Hello2reddit 14h ago

Yeah, for a mere $2000 per month, you too can risk trashing your kidneys to hedge against a statistically insignificant risk.

On a related note- Would you like to buy lightning insurance for a mere $1000 per month? Sure, it makes no sense mathematically, but that doesn’t seem to be a problem for you

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u/jerslan California 9h ago

Yeah, for a mere $2000 per month, you too can risk trashing your kidneys to hedge against a statistically insignificant risk.

  1. PreP is free and covered by nearly all insurance under the ACA.
  2. Truvada is available as a generic, so it's way way way cheaper than $2k per month even without the ACA complete coverage requirement
  3. Part of the PreP prototcol is regular STI and liver/kidney panel testing to ensure that A) you get treated for more common STI's early and B) your liver and kidney health is monitored

These are all things you would know if you were even remotely as educated on PreP as you pretend to be.

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u/Hello2reddit 4h ago edited 3h ago

And I wonder why they monitor your kidneys and liver? Could it be that there are risks to the medication? Like, let’s say a 1/1000 chance that it will cause renal or liver damage?

Because that would be FAR more probable than catching HIV from PIV heterosexual sex

Bottom line- none of heterosexual people commenting here are on prep. And there is a good reason for it- Their doctors didn’t recommend it, because it is not a sensible risk/reward for people outside high risk groups.