Mulvaney: If Your State Doesn't Mandate Maternity Care, Change Your State
Source: Talking Points Memo
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, one of the top administration officials who had been working to pass the bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, on Friday morning brushed off concerns about a new provision in the bill that repeals the Essential Health Benefits requirement.
That provision would repeal a requirement that insurers cover a list of 10 essential benefits, including maternity care. Asked about this on CBS' "This Morning," Mulvaney argued that states can still require that insurance companies cover the EHBs.
"If you live in a state that wants to mandate maternity coverage for everybody, including 60-year-old women, thats fine," he said.
Co-host Alex Wagner asked Mulvaney about people who do not live in a state that requires maternity coverage.
"Then you can figure out a way to change the state that you live in," Mulvaney replied.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mulvaney-states-maternity-care
It's just evil.
Stuart G
(38,427 posts)but we need to consider the source.....
wordpix
(18,652 posts)are funny but they just support the reality that the Rs are a bunch of clowns
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)going to abolish the regulation of health insurance, as barriers to the market, by the States?
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)not sure it's in this bill
wordpix
(18,652 posts)nothing more. Let's call it what it is, a massive tax break for the rich
unblock
(52,227 posts)yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)Marthe48
(16,957 posts)move to Russia, you p.o.s.
dalton99a
(81,486 posts)Marthe48
(16,957 posts)all of them
Javaman
(62,530 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)Fred Schneider FTW.
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)Or, at the very least, pay out of your ass for it.
dchill
(38,489 posts)They've figured out that you still have some of their money, and they're going to get it.
NewRedDawn
(790 posts)Dickhead Mulvaney.
Turbineguy
(37,329 posts)change the government, dickhead?
Stuart G
(38,427 posts)can they??? ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
dalton99a
(81,486 posts)MontanaMama
(23,314 posts)that "we can't restore our society with other people's babies"? Excluding maternity care benefits seems counter intuitive to that.
Oh wait, I forgot for a second who we're dealing with.
Kber
(5,043 posts)NewRedDawn
(790 posts)Last edited Fri Mar 24, 2017, 02:14 PM - Edit history (1)
And keep their phony Electoral advantage with the num nuts that remain. Also put financial strain on the blue states. Mission accomplished Putin & Putin Publicans.
JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)With the intent of Stopping the GOP Lead by Trump Agenda at every turn. . . but we also discuss 'what ifs'.
There's going to be a New Governor in NJ this year. We are going to maintain and increase Democratic representation in the Assembly and Senate.
And with that - we need *when we talk* to prevent Health Care Refugees from Trump 'States'. Seriously - it's sick and it is cruel - but we need a two year delay in being able to take state benefits.
Now -if you get transferred here by say Johnson and Johnson or AT &T and the state mandates your employer cover you - that's aok.
We simply cannot be asked to give one more thin red cent to people who were too stupid to see Trump for what 'it' is and thus have harmed every single American.
This concept will take bread off the tables of good New Jerseyans who are down on their luck and need state sponsored health care their pregnancy.
Yeah - so we are kind of assholes like that . . . but every Indivisible, Progressive Action, Block Trump organization needs to start thinking like that: How can I protect people like me and defend smaller resources from outsiders who hate me for what I am - a liberal in a blue state.
riversedge
(70,218 posts)Friend or Foe
(195 posts)It begins with FU
It ends with YOU
Somewhere in between the beginning and end is CK
dalton99a
(81,486 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)would have the power to deny maternity care.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)librechik
(30,674 posts)Is that a good thing? Only if the teeny states call all the shots and the blues get robbed and underfunded.
Oak2004
(2,140 posts)empty acreage has the vote.
People? Not so much.
NewRedDawn
(790 posts)See my post above. What good is it to make blue states bluer?Remaining Red State Dumfuckistan will still win electoral vote. Unless we are allotted more congressional districts & awarded more electoral votes & distributed our fair share of the treasury, But they would still control senate seats in those states.
Hekate
(90,683 posts)No women need apply.
Contraceptives? Not my problem. Prenatal care? Pfft. Postnatal care? Who needs it? Well baby checkups? Oh, be real. Pap smears and mammograms? Eww, ladyparts.
Next time I really lose my temper and call them all "motherfuckers," there will be a whole new layer of literal meaning.
Vinca
(50,271 posts)Any woman who (unfortunately) happens to married to one of these bozos should follow the GOP aspirin between knees advice unless actively trying to conceive. If GOP men don't want to pay for maternity care, they need to grab a box of tissues and lock themselves in the bathroom with a dirty magazine.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Now it's Move to Another State Again if you don't like your health care insurance
itcfish
(1,828 posts)Thing to say!
Solly Mack
(90,766 posts)I know that makes me petty, but I don't care.
I don't even want the bad things to happen so he'll learn a lesson because he wouldn't learn anything.
I just want those horribly bad things to happen because he deserves it.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)Solly Mack
(90,766 posts)But, well - doesn't seem to work that way.
They get ahead on the backs and dead bodies of others.
irisblue
(32,974 posts)Oak2004
(2,140 posts)because that's how insurance works.
Geez, if maternity coverage were only for childbearing women, that's mathematically the same as women paying out of pocket for maternity care.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)what living in a CIVIL SOCIETY means???
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,993 posts)Maternity benefits are for the health of her unborn (and newly born) child, not just for the mother. Everyone who is born needs them!
OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)EVERYONE DOES
maxrandb
(15,330 posts)Don't you know that if people could get the fuck out of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama or Mississippi they'd have left already??
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)0rganism
(23,953 posts)"change the state that you live in"
yes, we can all take a hand in this, it's long overdue. from local school boards up to governorships, from town councils to legislatures, all across this land, let's work diligently to change the states we live in, improve them for our children and coming generations. we all need to become active at the state and local level. for some, it is our last line of defense against the encroaching darkness. for others, that line has crumbled and needs to be rebuilt stronger than ever.
thank you Mick for sharing your insight on this topic, and pointing out a simple truth.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)0rganism
(23,953 posts)the idea that we can count on this version of the federal government to do anything but funnel big money to the already-wealthy is fallacious. if we're going to help people we need more local and state governments to see the benefits of Democratic policies and politicians.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)policies that cover maternity leave.