This is all a load of baloney, entirely divorced from reality.
“By analogy, you could pay Income Taxes, which go into the U.S. Treasury general fund. But it would be morally wrong to pay funds into a payment scheme designed as an “employee benefit” (insurance plan) when YOU KNOW the “benefit” consists of injecting toxins into employees or providing for their reproductive maiming.”
If I were sending my premium dollars to an “abortion fund” or a “contraceptive fund,” you might have half a point.
But as an employer, I don't, and thus, you don't.
I send my premium dollars off to an insurance company that is regulated by my state. The state-mandated benefits are what they are. I don't get any choice. Most of that money goes for folks to get actual, real, live medical treatment, not contraceptives and the like. A small portion is paid out for these immoral products and services. Much like the money I send to the US treasury, or the treasury of my state. I don't get to pick and choose, as an individual, what policies the US or my state government will execute. I don't get to pick and choose, as an individual employer, what my state will mandate in my health insurance policies.
If I want my folks to be treated for cancer without bankrupting them, I gotta buy the state-mandated policies (or they have to buy the individual policies in our state that mandate THE SAME BENEFITS). If I want to be able to have my kid treated for his brain tumor, I gotta buy a policy with the state mandates.
There IS NO SPECIAL FUND for my premium dollars that says, “Abortion Fund” or “Contraceptive Fund.” That's just stupid.
In fact, in my state, PAYING MY TAXES is more morally implicated in evil, as in my state, abortions for women on Medicaid are fully paid by state monies, whereas there is no abortion “benefit” mandate in my company's group health insurance policy.
But you've already exonerated those of us (including yourself, conveniently) who pay our taxes.
For employers, purchasing health insurance for workers is almost at the level of compulsion of a tax. And under Obamacare, it becomes, literally, a tax, according to the "Catholic" idiot Chief Jackass of the tyrannical court.
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If this is a tax, how can it be Constitutional, since the bill originated in the Senate? AND since SG Verrilli, representing the govt., explicitly stated --- both before, during, and after the USSC arguments --- that it's not a tax??
I'll quit now. The whole thing is Crazy. Corrupt. Criminal. The Roberts decision ---which some "conservatives" described as subtly brilliant --- is pure tyranny.