5-2

1) Rx entirely not covered by my insurance company.

2) deodorant

3) gly-oxide

J. and I are splitting the cost of birth control now and while technically it's J.'s turn to foot the bill, I'm picking them up at the pharmacy. Here's a break down on what that means:

For 84 pills (63 active) we're paying a 60 dollar copay, which works out to about 71 cents per day (or 95 cents per active pill). An outrageous copay for a drug therapy that was developed in 1951.
However, when compared to the cost of babies, I manage to reign in my outrage. The 2004 Census report shows that the real median income for American families is still $43,318. Families earning between $41,700 and $70,200 spent $184,320 to raise their children to the age of 17. For those of you wondering, that's an increase of spending on children of $5,730 from 2003. And the real median income has not changed at all in the same amount of time.
This in a nation where 29% of children do not have health insurance.
Of course, that's not taking into account the real cost of children. The National Poverty Center wrote their own paper determining the real cost of children and factored time in as one of the variables.