2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumA Bush & Romney econ adviser compares having a baby with buying a Porsche
GOPs newest demented crusade: War on mothersA Bush and Romney economic adviser compares having a baby with buying a Porsche. They cant be this dumb, can they?
JOAN WALSH
Conservatives continue to be outraged by the Affordable Care Acts requirement that basic insurance policies cover maternity and newborn care. When Rep. Renee Ellmers, the chair of the House GOP Womens Policy Committee, asked Kathleen Sebelius Has a man ever delivered a baby? she was introducing her partys best new argument against Obamacare. Forget death panels; now we have birth panels, which force Americans to pay for the continuation of the human species whether they want to or not.
You would think the supposedly pro-life party would be happy to put the power of the government behind keeping pregnant women and unborn babies safe and healthy. We should never let her lack of access to prenatal and newborn care make a woman decide abortion is a better choice, right?
Wrong. In fact, the rights campaign against maternity coverage has only gotten more strident. Just Monday morning, Harvard economist and George W. Bush Council of Economic Advisors chair Greg Mankiw argued against such coverage with the worst analogy yet:
But having children is more a choice than a random act of nature. People who drive a new Porsche pay more for car insurance than those who drive an old Chevy. We consider that fair because which car you drive is a choice. Why isnt having children viewed in the same way?
full article
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/11/gops_newest_demented_crusade_war_on_mothers/
raging moderate
(4,304 posts)Of course, they should get to reproduce as much as they want, while the rest of us spend all our time and energy taking care of their superior progeny!
sinkingfeeling
(51,454 posts)as someone who does. Or I don't have a bum heart. Or I don't have cancer. These people are so stupid they don't have a basic understanding of how insurance works!
Mass
(27,315 posts)I wonder if there has been a time where the GOP was that lost. 40 People in the House and 5 to 10 people in the Senate block everything. Leaders are busy running for reelection and keeping their leadership position at the same time. Reince Preibus is below everything and absolutely useless.
Result, a few think tanks are giving the talking points, and the talking points are more and more hollow, like this one...
Mass
(27,315 posts)world wide wally
(21,742 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)When you compare the hospital bills from a birth to the bill of sale for a Porsche Cayman, they cost about the same!
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)that they're being punished by the ACA.