I am not sure where you are getting the idea that Jindal or I are advocating paying for anyone's birth control. The point of making it 'over the counter' is so that we DON'T have to subsidize others sex lives. The idea is to take the pill out of the realm of prescription drugs so that it no longer needs to be covered by insurance.
The reason the idea will get some conservative support is that many on the right don't much like the FDA requiring so many drugs be prescription only in the first place. It's icing on the cake that we take the pill away from Obama as a political tool.
You know, as we discussed earlier, you can both win your point and lose it, too.
You are right about this. I get your point. But that ship has sailed, and quite frankly I don't want politicians babbling about whether birth control is good or bad. If the church wants to take a position on that, fine. But it's really just not something I believe the government should have much to do with.
I wish I could use italics in my reply as you are doing. It makes this much easier to read. But I am doing this on a stupid Tablet, and don’t know how.
In our posts, it seems we both understand that people don’t want to pay for other people’s BC, and many don’t want to have support for its use mandated if they are morally opposed to it.
Jindal’s lame-brained idea is to accomodate this thinking within the framework of Obamacare. So rather than fight Obamacare with this valid issue, he concedes on Obamacare completely by trying to remove the issue.
Let’s try to think a few steps ahead, which is something a Democrat would never be caught dead doing.
How will this “solution” work for abortion, which you know is coming next? Can you “legislate” that it is not a medical procedure? Make it not covered by private health-care?
Jindal’s “solutuon” is moronic. It plays directly into the Democrat’s hand. The Demicrats have politicized healthcare. They need to get burned by people’s dislike of what they are doing. Sandra Fluke is a loathsome albatros that we should drag out every chance we get.
This just sounds like another political intrusion into healthcare, trying to get Obamacare to work. Jindal should just switch parties if this is what he thinks is right.