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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is what happens When One "Compromises" about BIRTH CONTROL
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/02/10/423346/gop-ups-the-ante-introduces-legislation-to-allow-any-employer-to-deny-any-preventive-health-service/But 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 Obamas 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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IT is sick that the GOP would even start this crap. BUT if for some SICK crazy reason this actually passes and become law WHAT OTHER preventative services would insurers deny?
WHY the freak is the GOP so much like a villian from a silent movie tying the american public to the railroad tracks as the corporations play the train about to kill the Damsel...
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This is what happens When One "Compromises" about BIRTH CONTROL (Original Post)
Justice wanted
Feb 2012
OP
it is absolutely sickening that one's ability to get decent health insurance is dependent on how
niyad
Feb 2012
#1
I'm still freakin sick that pneumonia is now considered a pre-existing condiction.
Justice wanted
Feb 2012
#2
niyad
(113,284 posts)1. it is absolutely sickening that one's ability to get decent health insurance is dependent on how
non-crazy the employer is.
this just gets more and more insane by the freaking minute.
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)2. I'm still freakin sick that pneumonia is now considered a pre-existing condiction.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)3. Do like the GOP in Congress - pull out at the last minute.
SaintPete
(533 posts)4. there is an easy solution
stop employment linked health insurance.
Single payer solves all of these issues.
movonne
(9,623 posts)5. This whole thing makes me want to cry... the
year of 2012 will known as the year that started going backwards...these repugs remind me of the good people who burned witches at the stake...
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)6. "...when you`re down on your knees with nothing left to sell...
try diggin a little deeper in the well,well,well.."
o`keefe/dylan
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)7. I can't figure out why the cave on this.
It isn't like the Catholic Church has such a great reputation these days. How many people, besides the church officials, really care?