Dr. Rachel Rubin
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And the bureaucracy was just too hard to get through.
The movie's just incredible because what happened, how the drug got sold and bought and what the small community that tried to get it through, it truly explains women's health in sort of a bigger picture of, well, there's always something more important, right?
Your libido is not important to your doctor because we have to do your cancer screening and we have to do this and we have to do that and your mammogram.
You have to, but nothing can affect your ability to have a baby.
Right.
That is your fertility, right?
is the most important thing.
And if you say you're bothered by your low libido, you get told you must do therapy.
You have to fail marriage counseling.
They're literally, Blue Cross is telling people they must fail marriage counseling in order to get Addy approved.
I have never been told by a man's sexual health medicine, well, we will not approve that unless they fail marriage counseling.
You have to get a divorce for Blue Cross.
Take care of it.
Failed marriage counseling.
It sounds like divorce to me.
Like, how can you demand women get marriage counseling, which often isn't covered by insurance and good luck finding a marriage counselor?
No one in the sexual medicine world is suggesting that therapy doesn't work, that communication doesn't work.
We love sex therapy.
We love concepts.
We love body positivity and sex education.