Your Boss Shouldn't Get to Have "Religious" Objections to Your Health Care

[pokerfan]

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Then the Supreme Court stepped in, siding with Hobby Lobby and ruling that "closely held" corporations with religious objections could join religious employers in excluding birth control from their insurance plans.

Now the Trump administration has gone a giant step further. They're now allowing any and all businesses, including publicly traded ones, to also cite "religious or moral objections" in denying their employees contraception coverage.

Wait a minute.

Corporations not only have religious freedom but now moral principles, too? I didn't even know they went to church, and I'm pretty sure I've never seen one get down on its knees and pray.

On the other hand, I know women -- who are actual people -- have religious freedom under the Constitution, too. What about their right not to be forced to bow to their employers' religious beliefs or highly suspect "moral" principles?

More: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/42267-your-boss-shouldn-t-get-to-have-religious-objections-to-your-health-care

[Beartracks]

1. Conservatives ALWAYS do what they complain others do; in this case...

... it's having bean counters and, potentially, "death panels" making your healthcare decisions for you, by way of limiting your options. And as I recall from the rightwing mantra we hear all the time, limiting options is the opposite of freedom, is it not?

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[PoliticAverse]

2. Yes, health insurance should be separate from employment. n/t

[Angry Dragon]

3. no more Viagra medical coverage

[RandomAccess]

4. So true

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[Hortensis]

5. Oh, I think religious objections could be very beneficial. Most people are definitely

slow learners when it comes to this stuff. We need a devastating blowback to the religious right's attempt to take over our nation, and for that it seems the people could use some good wake-up whacks in the face with the old testament.