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« on: February 10, 2012, 04:41:01 PM »

tl;dr.

All the Catholic friends and family here are more disgusted with the church's opposition than the Obama decision.   The compromise I read a few posts above leads me to leave this will have a 0% effect on the election.
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« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2012, 04:54:33 PM »

Apparently the compromise is that insurers rather than employers would pay for birth control if an employer objects to paying for birth control on religious grounds.

The insurers need to cover it without getting any additional premium payment for the additional coverage?  I guess it should not surprise me that in some quarters, private companies are viewed as a piggy bank to finance certain government objectives, but that only works after you emesh them the tar baby of governmental dependency, where they can be bullied and already have sunk costs, so they can't just stop providing the good or service now saddled with costs rendering the good or service unprofitable.

I seriously doubt the sales of contraception pills at staunch Catholic institutions will ever be high enough to make a serious dent into the balance sheets of any insurer. 

Wedge issue is wedge.
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