By setting guidelines for religious organizations, isn't the government promoting a centralized religion? Or rather a form of centralized religion?
Because the federal government has no business mandating this on a national level.
Please tell me why a personal choice should be subsidized. Maybe government should mandate that employers pay for employees cigarettes.
This issue really has nothing to do with "woman's health", freedom of religion, or access to birth control rather the rights of any business to decide what benefits they will provide to an employee.
Don't know where the "progressives" got this idea that things, especially those involving choice (like sex) should be subsidized by everyone else.
So an employer provides a health plan that doesn't cover birth control, does that limit access to birth control? Nope.
I disagree with zinfamous' statement as much as you do, but lets not bring unions into this. It isn't relevant, and neither is tax-exempt status.
Did the employees know they would not receive contraceptives via their health care policy when they asked for a job?
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...dation-on-contraceptive-policy/#ixzz1lzmA16jbThe White House is expected to announce as early as Friday a plan to accommodate religious organizations and others that are opposed to a new policy requiring contraceptive coverage for employees.
A senior adviser to President Obama confirmed to Fox News that there will be an "accommodation" -- but advisers said the announcement does not represent a "compromise."
The move comes as several prominent Democratic lawmakers have urged the Obama administration to reconsider its position, which some consider an infringement of religious freedom. Vice President Biden said in an interview a day earlier that he was "determined" to work out the dispute.
Biden is among a string of Catholic administration officials who reportedly voiced concerns with the policy as it was being hashed out.
Why didn't they make the law so that all insurance had to cover BC as opposed to the employer having to buy the option? If it was required that all insurance cover BC, this would really be a moot point.
It is hard as hell to get most employers to give you any information about health benefits before starting. When they do provide information it comes in the form of a single page summary. The fact that BC is not covered is usually buried much deeper than the little summary table.
This is going to backfire on GOP. They are going to lose women's votes. I guess they didn't get the message after the Komen mess.
<snip> You want to remove this from the equation, make birth control available over the counter...
I'm all for that.
The religious wing nuts have screwed us all in this country regarding this point.
Get rid of all abstinence only education. It doesn't work and only makes the problems associated with having sex much worse.
All birth control pills, morning after pills, mifeprestone and misoprostol all to be over the counter medications. Make it a mandatory class that everyone in both middle school and high school goes through as part of their education on how to USE those pills correctly. Allow generics of all those pills on the market because they are now over the counter.
Then one can remove the need to have insurance cover the costs of birth control and abortion. Why? Because it won't cost fucking ridiculously too much, and be a pain in the ass to get as it currently is.
Well, when you have no ecomomy game, got to pull out the old culture war cards,
Yeah, that is what I was attempting to show via unions. Tax status is irrelevant to this and is simply a way of trying to shift the conversation.
Did the employees know they would not receive contraceptives via their health care policy when they asked for a job?
Then one can remove the need to have insurance cover the costs of birth control and abortion. Why? Because it won't cost fucking ridiculously too much, and be a pain in the ass to get as it currently is.
Oh, okay. I misunderstood you. Sorry about that.
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Not necessarily. Many states already have this as a required part of employee benefits.
And what does that have to do with overreaching federal mandates?
LOL - Obama is an idiot.
So the charity/church won't have to pay for birth control rather the insurance company.
Where exactly does Obama think that the insurance company gets the money to pay for the birth control.
What a joke.