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Not all prescription medication is covered, and I know of no medication that is health companies are forced to cover by law. If a company does not want to cover medication for a particular health issue, they have/had that choice. It was their choice and not a responsibility bestowed upon them by the government like birth control is.
So companies should be able to evaluate the uses and efficacy of medications and decide for themselves which medications they want their insurance companies to cover, and which they don't? You are willing to allow your employer, who doesn't have the medical knowledge or education, to make those medical decisions for you?
that opinion was severely limited in scope, being one that ONLY dealt with contraceptives, AND is only allowed for closely held corporations. in other words, hobby lobby, and corporations like them can refuse to cover contraceptives, but they CANNOT refuse to provide health insurance. you fail based on your progressive beliefs that somehow conservatives are going to get away with not providing health care for anyone, and that you progressives are going to save the world by spending everyones money.
"Should employees be required to adjust their private lives according to the religious beliefs of shareholders? When stockholders get together at their annual meetings, should there be votes on what the religious beliefs of the corporation are going to be this year? What happens when people of another religious persuasion purchase a lot of stock and gain the stock majority? Does the corporation change religion, too?
A corporation is a THING. IT doesn't have beliefs."
"The court ... has ventured into a minefield ... Would the exemption … extend to employers with religiously grounded objections to blood transfusions (Jehovah's Witnesses); antidepressants (Scientologists); medications derived from pigs, including anesthesia, intravenous fluids, and pills coated with gelatin (certain Muslims, Jews, and Hindus); and vaccinations ... Not much help there for the lower courts bound by today's decision."
Or maybe some Mormon who holds on to the more archaic interpretations of their Bible decides he won't provide insurance to Blacks b/c they have the Mark of Cain.
The inability of this crop of Conservative justices to see the obvious consequences of their decisions is going to be a black mark on the history of this country. We're going to look back at several of these decisions and shake our heads w/ embarrassment that supposedly educated jurists were dumb enough to actually reach their conclusions.
What are the "obvious consequences of their decisions" with regard to the subject of birth control?
that opinion was severely limited in scope, being one that ONLY dealt with contraceptives, AND is only allowed for closely held corporations. in other words, hobby lobby, and corporations like them can refuse to cover contraceptives, but they CANNOT refuse to provide health insurance. you fail based on your progressive beliefs that somehow conservatives are going to get away with not providing health care for anyone, and that you progressives are going to save the world by spending everyones money.
And what's stopping one of these anti-gay bigots from using the reasoning that b/c of their religious objections that they can't support providing insurance to gay employees? And based on the Conservative decision, they'd be w/in their rights.
"The court ... has ventured into a minefield ... Would the exemption … extend to employers with religiously grounded objections to blood transfusions (Jehovah's Witnesses); antidepressants (Scientologists); medications derived from pigs, including anesthesia, intravenous fluids, and pills coated with gelatin (certain Muslims, Jews, and Hindus); and vaccinations ... Not much help there for the lower courts bound by today's decision."
....millions of people being denied the right to quietly gestate in their mother's womb (Liberal Feminists).
Countdown until another see's a post on TellMeWhatToSayToConservativerRepublicans dot org that needs to be reposted/repeated here.
Don't work for Hobby Lobby! Goddamn, what a nation of worrisome abolsute crybabies we've become. For ****ake's sake!
Last edited by CaseyB; 06-30-2014 at 04:25 PM..
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