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My oh my!

EXCLUSIVE: 140 Companies Drop Advertising From Rush Limbaugh [Update: 142]

"ThinkProgress has obtained an internal memo from Premiere Radio Networks listing 96 national companies that have “specifically asked” their advertisments not be played during the Rush Limbaugh Show. Premiere is the distributor of Limbaugh’s program. The advertisers have also requested to be excluded from other right-wing hosts including Michael Savage, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. According to the memo, the listed companies’ advertisements should be excluded from these programs because they have been “deemed to be offensive.”

"Previously, ThinkProgress has reported that 50 companies requested their advertising be pulled from the Rush Limbaugh show following his sexist attacks on Sandra Fluke. The publication of the memo adds an additional 90 companies to the list of companies that have dropped Limbaugh"
 
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This just gets funnier and funnier by the week. The idea that
1- I hate what Limbaugh said... oops sorry ... I hate what "RUSH said", but
2- I hate even more what any liberals said years ago because I hate liberals because I hate liberals

is to debate as is trying to make sense out of the Hatfields and the McCoys in the appalachian hill wars.

there is no point to it beyond trying to turn the tables on your hated ideological enemies to take some of the heat off your own kind.

Do not forget the under currents of misogyny by certain folks since this thread started. While not funny? It is a bit amusing those try to act as if they are pro-women;)
 
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BRAKING NEWS!

**Rush Limbaugh show NOT cancelled!

**In other news, Terry Schiavo is STILL dead.

Stay tuned for more exiting updates from your friendly EvilConservative(.com) representative.
 
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Do not forget the under currents of misogyny by certain folks since this thread started. While not funny? It is a bit amusing those try to act as if they are pro-women;)

Excellent point. And they obviously are fooling very few with their tactics.
 
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Excellent point. And they obviously are fooling very few with their tactics.

Everyone with a brain knows that Obama was sucking with women, and needed a way to garner their support. Well this is it. It's that simple. You want to believe some delusional ideas about pro-women and anti-women, that's your issue.
 
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Republicans Losing on Birth Control as 77% in Poll Spurn Debate

"Americans overwhelmingly regard the debate over President Barack Obama’s policy on employer-provided contraceptive coverage as a matter of women’s health, not religious freedom, rejecting Republicans’ rationale for opposing the rule. More than three-quarters say the topic shouldn’t even be a part of the U.S. political debate."

"The results suggest the Republican candidates’ focus on contraception is out of sync with the U.S. public. Seventy-seven percent of poll respondents say birth control shouldn’t be a topic of the political debate, while 20 percent say it should."

Republicans Losing on Birth Control as 77% in Poll Spurn Debate - Bloomberg
 
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Here are Three Myths In Our Current National Debate About Birth Control:
Myth #1) Ms. Fluke wants somebody else to pay for her contraception
No. Ms. Fluke is not asking for other people to pay for her birth control, any more than others might want somebody else to pay for their allergy pills.
What any of us want is for the services we value to be part of our health coverage. As we are paying into a risk pool, we would like for our preferred preventative care to be covered. By speaking out, Ms. Fluke wants to encourage all of us to arrive at a public consensus that says birth control is considered of value to enough people (NOT 100%) but enough people that it is included in the coverage she has.

Myth #2) Adding birth control to an insurance plan drives up costs for everyone
No. It will not. There is ample evidence to suggest that including cost free birth control in insurance plans does not raise the overall cost of health care because it reduces the number of unwanted pregnancies and abortions. See an article here: Why Free Birth Control Will Not Hike the Cost of Your Insurance | Moneyland | TIME.com

Myth #3) Obama’s Recent HHS mandate will force religious organizations who oppose birth control on religious grounds to provide it
No. Obama’s HHS mandate, which was revised in February, provides an exclusion for all faith-based organizations — not just houses of worship but also hospitals and universities — from covering employees’ contraception costs.
Obama Birth Control: Religious Groups Exempted From Contraception Rule

Three Myths In Our Current National Debate About Birth Control
 
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Republicans Losing on Birth Control as 77% in Poll Spurn Debate

"Americans overwhelmingly regard the debate over President Barack Obama’s policy on employer-provided contraceptive coverage as a matter of women’s health, not religious freedom, rejecting Republicans’ rationale for opposing the rule. More than three-quarters say the topic shouldn’t even be a part of the U.S. political debate."

"The results suggest the Republican candidates’ focus on contraception is out of sync with the U.S. public. Seventy-seven percent of poll respondents say birth control shouldn’t be a topic of the political debate, while 20 percent say it should."

Republicans Losing on Birth Control as 77% in Poll Spurn Debate - Bloomberg

This is not unexpected and demonstrates how wildly out of touch with America much of the right wing Republican party is. They will never learn since they simply believe what they believe because they want to believe it.
 
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Everyone with a brain knows that Obama was sucking with women, and needed a way to garner their support. Well this is it. It's that simple. You want to believe some delusional ideas about pro-women and anti-women, that's your issue.

It is not what I believe or do not believe. It is what the right wing believes that separates them from the American people that is important. This is after all an election year.

And that then becomes America's issue.
 
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Myth #1) Ms. Fluke wants somebody else to pay for her contraception

Insurance plans cover prescriptions that correct a medical defect/problem. Allergy pils and hormone therapy would fall into that category. BC pills being used for contraception is elective, much like recreational viagra and condoms (Has Obama ordered that these be covered?). So, it's not quite as cut and dry as your link tries to make it.

Myth #2) Adding birth control to an insurance plan drives up costs for everyone

Adding birth control will drive up the cost of insurance premiums. The insurance companies themselves have already stated that it will. Will it increase the overall cost of healthcare spending? I have no idea. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone state that, honestly. So, it seems like a strawman to me.


Myth #3) Obama’s Recent HHS mandate will force religious organizations who oppose birth control on religious grounds to provide it

The religious organizations will have to pay for the increased premium. The religious organizations that are self-insured will have to pay for it. Many religious organizations went to self insurance in order to get out of their state’s mandates to pay for BC. They are now going to be required to.
 
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I would say that the effect on premiums is inconclusive. FactCheck.org : Cloudy Contraception Costs

I won't argue it, other than to say that I would tend to trust the insurance companies and their actuaries on the subject since they actually make money by having to be correct.

Anyway, the study the Obama administration used to argue that premiums would decrease apparently stated:
The study’s authors said that insurance companies would save money — but then they conceded the opposite could be true, and said “additional studies will be necessary to address this issue.”

I just found that kind of funny.
 
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Adding birth control will drive up the cost of insurance premiums. The insurance companies themselves have already stated that it will..

Insurance companies will save money in the long rin.

Actually, not really. The truth is that both insurers and employers who self-insure save money in the long run by covering contraception. So much money is saved that it makes financial sense to waive co-pays and deductibles. A 2000 study by the National Business Group on Health estimates that not providing contraceptive coverage in employee health plans winds up costing employers 15% to 17% more than providing such coverage.<SNIP>

By contrast, if an insurer makes birth control totally free for all of its customers, it avoids having to reimburse them for countless unplanned pregnancies and births. Overall, then, it’s cheaper for the insurer to pay a little upfront to save a ton down the line. <SNIP>

Read more: Why Free Birth Control Will Not Hike the Cost of Your Insurance | Moneyland | TIME.com
 
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Why is govt being allowed in this matter at all? Doesn't everyone want less govt in their lives and to stay out of our bedrooms?
 
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I get that ou would want to cling to the study that affirms your position - but as was pointed out there are a bunch of conflicting studies and the all of the insurance companies indicated there would not be any savings.

BTW, I wonder if the study you are quoting from contained the caveat that they could be wrong and premiums might actually increase - just as the study Obama quoted from indicated.
 
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Why is govt being allowed in this matter at all? Doesn't everyone want less govt in their lives and to stay out of our bedrooms?

Soon haircuts will be subsidized by the government.

And why not? The same plausible reasons can be made.
 
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Soon haircuts will be subsidized by the government.

And why not? The same plausible reasons can be made.

No they can't. To think that means you don't understand the argument. I understand disagreement, but not using silly ass arguments.
 
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I get that ou would want to cling to the study that affirms your position - but as was pointed out there are a bunch of conflicting studies and the all of the insurance companies indicated there would not be any savings.

BTW, I wonder if the study you are quoting from contained the caveat that they could be wrong and premiums might actually increase - just as the study Obama quoted from indicated.

The studies done in the Fact Check.org article are pretty old studies.
!995 ,1998, and the more recent Hawaiian study was done 2001.
In the 2001 study ;
■The administration cites Hawaii’s birth-control mandate, which a study said “did not appear” to increase health insurance premiums. Interestingly, the same study also showed an increase in the number of pregnancies after contraception coverage was required.

Just recently many brands of birth control have generics that are offered for $9 a month instead of the usual $20-$50 a month.

I would like to see the results of a more recent study.
 
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The studies done in the Fact Check.org article are pretty old studies.
!995 ,1998, and the more recent Hawaiian study was done 2001.

Then you can't be certain. While I would believe the insurance companies, their livliehood depends on being right about this stuff and they wouldn't have any reason to lie with Obamacare's mandates regarding profit, I can't say with absolute certainty.

So, the Time's article put forth as fact somethign that they can not possibly be certain of. Seems this now belongs in the media bias section.
 
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No they can't. To think that means you don't understand the argument. I understand disagreement, but not using silly ass arguments.

Check Flukes argument for the government subsidizing her contraceptives and then see how the same rationalizations can apply to haircuts. A trendy 30-year-old in grade 24 surely needs both.
 
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Check Flukes argument for the government subsidizing her contraceptives and then see how the same rationalizations can apply to haircuts.

Are you trying to prove his point?
 
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What's the price of carrying a baby 9 months and the costs of delivery these days?

If I were the insurance man, I'd rather buy the lady's birth control pills instead of having to pay for several deliveries and adding multiple dependants on her policy.

This isn't about saving money for employers or insurance companies. That's just the excuse the social conservatives are using.

Just more rightwing attempts to piss in your hair and convince you it's raining. Same ****, different day.

Smart people see through this.
 
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What's the price of carrying a baby 9 months and the costs of delivery these days?

Substantially more than the cost of birth control annually, that's for sure. But don't bother with logic in an emotional debate.
 
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