Employers shouldn't be health care providers at all; we need universal coverage.
They aren't health care providers, they pay a portion (not all in majority cases) of health care coverage as a benefit, an enticement for prospective employee's to want to work for them. It is not mandatory for them to provide this benefit. What is mandatory is workmans compensation benefits.
if we had universal coverage now and someone argued that we should drop it in favor of employer-specific health insurance that would be lost at every job change, that person would be laughed out of the room.
Biggest question of the day, can this country afford universal health care? Where exactly is the money going to come from? Are we planning on printing another trillion to pay for it?
I do not disagree with universal health care, what I do not think is that we can as a country actually afford it! The countries which are able to provide it are in much better financial situation than we.
your understanding is incorrect. the Catholic Church stands by its opposition to anything that closes the sexual act to fruitfulness, including birth control.
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How does that work in the real world? Say that a catholic couples get married then the woman is 20 years old, then you have around 20 years of fruitfulness. So with no contraception the couple can easily ends up with 5/10 childrens. Also what if the woman needs the contraception for medical reason?
I need gas too, should my car insurance cover that? Don't I have a right to gas?
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HAHA! thats funny, can you imagine the car insurance rates for car insurance that included gas?
They could stop runaway spending and quit printing money to pay our debts for one.
To say that either party wants to fix the economy is to believe in a false premise.
No, both parties want to fix the economy.
They want to fix it for their individual campaign contributors.
The issue that is a non issue with the people. To quote the Clinton campaign from the 1990's...."It's the economy stupids".
Folks are concerned with how they will feed their kids, Folks are concerned with Over 8% unemployment for the longest sustained time in the history of this country since the great depression, folks are concerned with 19% underemployment, folks are concerned with 4+ trillion dollars in new debt in less than 3 years, folks are concerned with home foreclosures continuing unabated by any Obama plan, folks are concerned with gasoline heading toward $5 a gallon driving up prices of all consumer goods and food prices hitting the stratosphere and folks are concerned with GDP growth below 2% which means we're losing ground. What they aren't concerned with is whether employers should be allowed not to cover contraception. We just want to pay our bills and feed our kids. Yet the Democrats are yeowing about contraception? How outta touch is that?
Not my problem. The employee should have to choose between birth control, or pregnancy coverage. Can't have both.
Because the argument, up til now, has been that birth control will save money in the long run. Why should we have to pay for birth control AND pregnancy?
This is the real world, bro, you can't have you cake and eat it too.
HAHA! thats funny, can you imagine the car insurance rates for car insurance that included gas?
At my company I am advocating heavily for cancelling coverage for most heart disease because it is predominately caused by the disgusting eating habits of those afflicted, and I am morally opposed to coverage for people with this self-imposed health issue.
Good for you, I'm sure your real popular in the lunch room.
Screw 'em. I work in the field.
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My point is where would it stop, like the poster said, we can be morally opposed to just about anything in health care. Health care should be just that, health care for all people who are covered under it. There should be some things considered elective and as such not covered under health care, acupuncture and things of this nature, or elective surgeries like plastic surgery or preexisting conditions.
The problem here is when you are talking about taking out birth control then health care costs will rise because women have a tendency to get pregnant. Before all this birth control pill business women were constantly getting pregnant and health care HAS to cover that because that is directly related to health and is necessary during pregnancy. After the advent of birth control with insurance companies staring to cover the cost it had a direct impact on insurance companies, for the better, why? because women weren't getting pregnant so darn often! It is why I do not see this as an issue, insurance companies should be happy to provide it, because it is they who will pay if they don't.
Actually that is correct, and right now we have one in office fixing it for his contributors, Big Unions.
Slick. Are you aware we survived fine for millenia without health insurance ? I am not advocating a return to no health insurance, but your post is just plain stupid. The problem we have is liberal politicians trying to shift accountability from their reckless supporters to the rest of us. Its all about accountability, and not all the other BS you froth. Return accountability to each and every person, and cut this BS of pretending its an offer to those of us who have to spread what we have to those who think they are owed, where we pick what is the least expensive way in which we will be fleeced. Depending on gender, its your dick, or your snatch. Own the outcome. Tough love, but it works.
Slick. Are you aware we survived fine for millenia without health insurance ? I am not advocating a return to no health insurance, but your post is just plain stupid. The problem we have is liberal politicians trying to shift accountability from their reckless supporters to the rest of us. Its all about accountability, and not all the other BS you froth. Return accountability to each and every person, and cut this BS of pretending its an offer to those of us who have to spread what we have to those who think they are owed, where we pick what is the least expensive way in which we will be fleeced. Depending on gender, its your dick, or your snatch. Own the outcome. Tough love, but it works.