To: Kaslin; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; calcowgirl; Gilbo_3; NFHale; ...
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He was talking, of course, about the Obama administration's recent decisions first to force large religious employers to pay for birth control and “preventive services” (including sterilization and abortifacient drugs), and its subsequent decision to demand that the relevant insurance companies provide it for “free” instead.
The “accommodation” — the White House rightly refuses to call it a compromise — is a farce. If you're paying for health insurance — or if you self-insure, as many institutions do — shifting responsibilities to the insurance companies doesn't shift the costs, just the paperwork. A Catholic hospital would still pay for the services; there just wouldn't be a line item for it in the monthly insurance bill.
If anything, President Obama has made the situation worse. The White House fact sheet seems to offer no exemption at all for religious institutions — or for anyone else: “Under the new policy ... women will have free preventive care that includes contraceptive services no matter where she [sic] works.” That sounds like a complete win for the “Get Your Rosaries Off My Ovaries” crowd to me”....
Of course, if religious institutions don't want to violate their consciences, they can simply stop offering health insurance altogether (providing yet another example of how Obama misled voters when he promised that the Affordable Care Act wouldn't cause anyone to lose their current coverage). That would at least allow religious organizations to uphold their principles. The result, however, would be to force taxpayers to subsidize practices many find morally abhorrent. In other words, Obama’s solution is to make paying taxes a moral dilemma for many pro-lifers. “
While the WH admits they didn't compromise the MSM and supporting Democrats are telling independent women voters that Obama compromised and that Republicans are once again too extreme to accept it, in a ploy to get them to vote Democrat.
I guess if these institutions refuse to offer any health insurance then the employees go on medicaid which will provide the BC and the employer pays a small fine.
5 posted on
02/15/2012 6:30:57 AM PST by
sickoflibs
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To: sickoflibs
I guess if these institutions refuse to offer any health insurance then the employees go on medicaid which will provide the BC and the employer pays a small fine. thats been the spoken end game all along...'single payer' was mentioned as the goal many times...incremental layers of this onion have been piled on with every *compromise* that the non principled demand...
reality and experience teaches that the least amount of tears are shed when you quickly skin the onion and toss it in the food processor...
10 posted on
02/15/2012 6:52:58 AM PST by
Gilbo_3
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14 posted on
02/16/2012 3:43:02 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
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