The Catholic Bishops Want Obama to Force A Costly, Anti-health Regulation on Health Insurers
This whole thing with the Catholic Bishops and the HCA coverage regulations is all politically topsy-turvy to me, as I find myself on the same side as the insurance companies, whom I would normally not avert my head to avoid spitting upon. Here is the key fact: it is much more cost effective, inexpensive and profitable for a health insurance company to give free contraception to its insured group of women of child bearing years than it would be for the same health insurance company if it instead had to pay for the unintended pregnancies that become actuarially predictable the moment access to contraception is reduced for those women. Ancillary fact: it is also better for mortality and other health outcomes for those same women and their doctors to have better control of the women's own bodies.
The Bishops want the federal government to force the companies they buy their health insurance from to cover their employees' pregnancies, without allowing those insurers to give those employees free access to contraception. They want the government to force insurers to tailor the insurance to their religious requirements. Does that sound a little like Sharia Law to anyone else, only Catholic?
The GOP is jumping on the bandwagon sensing a FREEDOM issue to rally their flagging base. At CPAC various pinheads were yammering that contraception is just preemptive abortion and that all Americans should have the right to choose health insurance that panders to their personal religious delusions. So, I'm on the wrong side of freedom, too. Huh.
And now the GOP wants this federal regulation, to force these avaricious health insurance companies to stop this slaughterhouse of preemptive abortion and just pay for old fashion, expensive, unwanted pregnancies. Because no one should have to buy insurance in this great country from a company that offers any coverage that encourages fucking, except for boner pills, or penile implants or other, you know important manly stuff that guys like Bishops might understand a little better, So, I'm on the side of the first big insurance friendly compromise that I ever remember favoring.
I getting a little dizzy. Where will this lead? Does GOP Crazy have no ceiling?