GOP Ups The Ante, Introduces Legislation To Allow Any Employer To Deny Any Preventive Health Service

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... Republicans and some conservative Catholic groups are not satisfied with the accommodation and hope to use their false claim of “religious persecution” to deny women access to preventive health services. Despite Obama’s decision to shield nonprofit religious institutions from offering birth control benefits, next week Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) is expected to offer an amendment that would permit any employer or insurance plan to exclude any health service, no matter how essential, from coverage if they morally object to it ...

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Under the measure, an insurer or an employer would be able to claim a moral or religious objection to covering HIV/AIDS screenings, Type 2 Diabetes treatments, cancer tests or anything else they deem inappropriate or the result of an “unhealthy” or “immoral” lifestyle. Similarly, a health plan could refuse to cover mental health care on the grounds that the plan believes that psychiatric problems should be treated with prayer.

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(...) As the National Women’s Law Center explains, Blunt’s language is vague enough that “insurers may be able to sell plans that do not cover services required by the new health care law to an entire market because one individual objects, so all consumers in a market lose their right to coverage of the full range of critical health services.” (...)

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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/02/10/423346/gop-ups-the-ante-introduces-legislation-to-allow-any-employer-to-deny-any-preventive-health-service/

[virtualobserver]

1. they are dumber than rocks, doubling down on a losing hand

[waddirum]

4. if this were really 11 dimensional chess

it appears that they (Boehner et.al.) keep walking into un passants, oblivious to all of the pawns (voters) they are loosing.

[HubertHeaver]

2. Under this legislation any and every comprehensive health plan

would become a very costly accident policy.

[AC_Mem]

3. Seriously

We need to go after this crap. How obvious is it that the GOP have so few ideas to actually advance this country that they have to revert to going backwards and fighting battles that have been long ago won.

And I find it VERY interesting to read the comments and opinions of those who would like to ban abortion and even contraception - whether it be political, through the church or even in my local paper here in Memphis - the "anti-choice" voices are almost entirely MALE.

Anyone else notice this?

I wonder how loud their voices would be if the rules applied to them or if they had to carry the baby resulting from rape or incest? Perhaps some women should seriously put up some legislation to a vote that would require internal, rectal xrays and prostate exams before they are prescribed viagra?

Or best of all - women (or men in the case of the closet GOP'ers who hypocritically fight against women's rights and gay rights while they are cruising for some male strange) should just say NO to the men who would vote to take away our rights.

I'm so sick of the GOP wanting to get inside my uterus. Priests and Bishops from the very churches who are best known for their assaults on young boys, acting outraged because they would have to allow women to be protected from unwanted pregnancy????

This country is seriously upside down and we need to make sure that anyone with (as they say here in the midsouth) "a lick of common sense" needs to make sure that they vote not only in November, but in all the local elections that are coming in 2012. If Democrats sit this one out like they did in 2010, we can look forward to much more of the appetizers that the GOP are serving up right now.

Educate your children, educate your grandchildren. What is happening in our country's history right this very minute presents us with a Teachable Moment in Time. My grandchildren (Trevor/11 and Skylar/7) can speak to ANYBODY about what is going on right now and why our basic American rights are being violated by the idiocy of the right. It is actually fun to show them the republicans at their craziest and then explain exactly what they want to do and what the reprocussions will be if they win elections. They can break it down so simply. My grandkids simply ask "what is wrong with them???" hahahaha!

[sarcasmo]

5. These idiots get crazier by the day. Reading this it sounds to me like their next step

is to deny health care to the Gay community.

[shraby]

6. He may write a bill like that, but it has to get through the Senate and the President

to even think about becoming a law. He's just tossing out there what he hopes with energize the gop but instead he's piling up the opposition to them.
Like I said before they actually believe their own propaganda.