Posted on 06/30/2014 1:08:09 PM PDT by servo1969
The big news across America today is the final pre-summer decisions of a Supreme Court that has not been altogether on board with the cafeteria constitutionalism of the Obama Administration.
Obamacare Rebuffed By High Court In Contraception Ruling
Up to a point. Hobby Lobby will continue to pay for all its employees' contraception except for a trio of abortifacients - that's to say, "morning-after pills" that dispose of any long-term consequences from the night before. A month's worth of these pills costs nine bucks from Wal-Mart. In the old days, we used to add "or less than a daily paper or a cup of coffee". But you can't buy a paper or a cuppa joe for 30 cents anymore. So a month's supply of these pills for any young lady paying full freight is the cost of one-and-a-half venti lattes at a big-city Starbuck's.
That's what we're arguing about: who's going to pick up the one-and-a-half lattes.
It would, of course, be outrageous to expect the person using the pills to pay for them. So what to do?
The great organizing principle of 21st-century American life is that everything should be fiendishly complicated. If, say, an Italian wishes to take a leak, he strolls six feet across the corridor to the bathroom and unzips. To achieve the same end in America, a Keystone pipeline-long catheter has to be inserted snaking from his underwear out the front door, down the road to his employer's human resources department, on to the chief executive at head office, across town to the micturition management services company, over to the bodily fluids evacuation insurance provider, down the railroad track to the federal bureaucracy in Washington, before winding its way back to his place and the bathroom six feet from where he's sitting.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Thanks for the link. The insurers can still lose money, but the govt will pay a big chunk of their losses. This will only last until 2016, then the insurers are on the hook for all the losses.....so...they will raise rates.
Steyn has a bit of confusion here. Regular birth control pills, the kind that cost $9/month at Walmart, are *not* the same as the morning-after pill. As I recall, the morning-after pills cost considerably more than birth control pills and are not intended to be used on a regular basis. Birth control pills are supposed to be taken daily.
Can you say extension
Unfortunately, yes.
Public uutilities have a guaranteed return. I’m sure they’ll keep something like that for Obama care. I think it’s already in the law...just can’t remember where I read it.
Public uutilities have a guaranteed return. I’m sure they’ll keep something like that for Obama care. I think it’s already in the law...just can’t remember where I read it.
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