How the heck do the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court and his colleagues not understand how Obamacare functions? Furthermore, Roberts and his buddies don't think the lengths women have to go through to get birth control is a big deal. Unbelievable!
This is one of the many reason it’s so darn important that President Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court is confirmed. Justice Sonia Sotomayor had just about enough of Justice Roberts and his buddies. She effectively told Roberts he was spreading a falsehood about Obamacare.
Thank you Justice Sotomayor!
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During oral arguments this week in Zubik v. Burwell — a set of seven challenges to Obamacare’s contraceptive-coverage mandate on behalf of religious nonprofits — Chief Justice John Roberts and his colleagues on the court’s conservative wing gave the impression that they don’t really grasp what the ACA’s health insurance exchanges do, or indeed how the market for health insurance itself even functions.
During a back-and-forth in the courtroom about women whose employers don’t cover contraception, and the subsequent lengths they must go to get it, Roberts suggested that it’s not actually a big deal if women in such situations have to get their birth control covered some other way. Justices Anthony Kennedy and Samuel Alito appeared to share the same belief.
“They’re on the exchanges, right?” Roberts said, implying that women without access to contraception from their religious employers can just sign up to receive it through the federal insurance exchanges instead.
For Justice Sonia Sotomayor, this seemed to be the last straw.
“They’re not on the exchanges,” she said. “That’s a falsehood.”
Sotomayor went on to explain to Roberts — and anyone else who needed to hear it — how exactly the exchanges work.
“The exchanges require full-service health insurance policies with minimum coverages that are set forth that are very comprehensive,” she said.