Talking point #338: since contraception is freely
distributed in this country; since all women have "free"
access nation wide, the fight Obama has chosen to have with the Catholics and
Evangelicals, is about the "bully pulpit" and government
control over private business as well as the conscience rule.
Yahoo: “Obama on Friday made insurers responsible
for providing free birth control to employees of religious groups, aiming to
placate outraged leaders of the Catholic church who oppose contraception and to
defuse an election-year landmine. . . . .”
Editor’s
notes: so goes the story line from
Reuters. None of it is true. First,
Obama has placated no one of import within the Catholic Church or among
Evangelicals. Secondly, this issue is not about “free contraception” because women have access to free contraception, anywhere and anytime, in this country. This is about the government telling a church
that its doctrines do not line up with social priorities and must be
changed, because of that.
Understand
this, nothing in the ObamaCare law, on this point, has been changed. The wording that led Obama to may his
controversial first decision is the same, precisely the same, as before this controversial decision blew-up
in his face. The law is not being
rewritten to include private insurance companies when,
before, they were excluded.
Nothing has changed except that the has made the subtle decision to wait
until later, to enforce his punitive law against “the church.”
More than
this, take a look at what he has done or
pretended to have done. When faced with
a problem in applying the law, Obama simply
changed his mind. In effect, he rewrote
the law on a whim and made that decision binding on insurance companies. He acted as if a dictator, period.
He, now, believes that he has
the right to legislate apart from congress.
And look
what this decision involves: he has
ordered insurance companies to offer a product, across the board, and to absorb the cost of that supply. Obviously,
if he can do this, he can order
private charities who they will add to their lists and do so, without asking
for additional financial aid. He could
give me a call and tell me to start caring for the neighbor’s years, a window,
and do so on a given schedule and without charge to anyone.
In
effect, he has taken over the entire
insurance industry with this new reform law.
I mean, if he can tell them what
to include as “offered benefits,” if he can determine what profit margins they
can have, he, in effect,
becomes the owner of those companies.
Time for a
change. No better example for the need to make a change.
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