Obama's Catholic hospital decision

[Brittain33]

You guys are way overreacting.

First, the cost will still be passed on to all the insurers' customers, so it's not like they're making up the benefit out of thin air.

Second, the cost considering how little this is compared to overall health costs and, more importantly, how widely contraception is already covered is going to be trivial.

Third, slippery slope fallacies need to account for the fact that this was briefly a political sh!tstorm of national relevance. When was the last time this happened? Oh yeah, when Republicans made hay from a recommendation to stop mammograms among women under 50 and started screaming about death panels, forcing Obama to backtrack. I don't think Angus compared that bit of extortion to prison rape, but I could be wrong.

It's politics. It's not pretty. But looking closely, it's not even ugly.

[Brittain33]

BTW, Torie, you're just not going to have a President directing his explanations to the academic top 5%
of America. He gets dinged for being too cerebral already.

[Brittain33]

Anyone who still cares now that Obama can claim both that he backed down and scored a victory for women's health advocates was already committed to voting Republican. This is not abortion where there is downside to Dems past a certain point. Obama looks to have won this round.