Let's be perfectly clear; businesses are NOT providing birth control to their employees, the insurer is, as part of the insurers basic health care plan. Again, it's a requirement for insurers, not businesses who just buy a total package with basic health care minimums.
And any religious organization that provides a public service to people of other religions, cannot infringe on a customers religious freedom by dictating what they can or cannot receive as treatment.
Eric Hovde and Mark Neumann seem to think businesses are exempt from the constitutional protections they provide people in one instance, and then flip that with claims businesses have constitutional rights and religious freedom like actual people. Ala carting what our tax dollars support based on our conscience or religious beliefs would open up a can of worms Republicans would end up regretting. I would cut funding for the military immediately, along with a legal system that supports the death penalty, the oil industry, statewide projects in Republican districts....etc.
Still, Mark Neumann's theatrics are almost as comical as they are scary. Watch as he whips off his glasses to make his point, "...Barack Obama must be stopped." The teabillies loved it.
Well, it depends on what your definition of "insurer" is. Many large companies as well as states, counties, municipalities, unions, and religious-affiliated organizations are self-insured. They're paying for the mandates. The carrier earns a fee for administrative services, but the insurance is paid for by the self-insured entity. As an example, a Catholic hospital may be self-insured. The hospital is directly paying for mandates.
ReplyDeleteFor other cases, you may argue that the insurers are paying for it, and while that's true that it's coming from their checkbook, the cost is passed onto someone -- the purchasers and the owners.