Mitch McConnell: Ban Birth Control Coverage for Any Reason
Appearing on 'Face the Nation,' Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that he supports a bill by Sen Roy Blunt (R-MS) that gives any employer the right to exclude any type of birth control that they find objectionable (video below).
Sen. McConnell said that he wasn’t satisfied with the way that the Obama administration had mandated health insurance companies cover birth control, even though Catholic hospitals and universities will no longer have to provide the services directly.
Host Bob Schieffer asked: “Sen. (Roy) Blunt from Missouri — one of your Republican colleagues — he wants an amendment now that would allow any group that had a moral objection to this to not have to pay for birth control pills. Are you willing to go as far a Sen. Blunt?”
McConnell answered: “Yeah. If we end up having to overcome the president’s opposition by legislation then, of course, I’d be happy to support it and intend to support it.”
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Hey, if you want to ban birth control, let's go, motherfucker! As long as you're willing to shell out the $226,920 it costs to raise one kid for 18 years yourself, then fine. Until then, you can shut up!
As for me? I had a vasectomy at 23, no kids, no regrets, and enjoying my childfree life! :-D
I really hate it when the self-destructing Republicans let the leftards define the language and the debate.
This is just a new way for the extreme left to repackage their abortion argument. They know that they loose in every national poll if they call it abortion so they repackage it as all birth control. Old satchell-butt can't see through the argument and gets taken to the cleaners.
The bottom line is that government already provides all these services free or at nominal cost through various programs. This new edict is merely a political ploy to further eliminate private insurance and should be exposed as such.
@ross80477: Hows this for you smart ass:
ScienceDaily (Feb. 24, 2010) — More intelligent people are statistically significantly more likely to exhibit social values and religious and political preferences that are novel to the human species in evolutionary history. Specifically, liberalism and atheism.
Reagan Insider Says, “GOP Destroyed Our Economy!”
David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan’s director of the Office of Management and Budget recently wrote an article for the New York Times which can be called nothing short of an indictment of the modern GOP and its economic policies.
The piece criticizes policies as far back as the Nixon administration, but talks specifically to the current crop of Republicans who want to extend Bush the Lesser’s disastrous tax cuts.
My question is how, during the current economic debacle that the neocon policies created, are there still thousands of voters stupid enough to continue to buy into the insanity?
Chuck
Uh... you must not have a job or understand how the market works.
Prior to the ACA, I was forking out $1800 a year for birth control pills for my three daughters, who had the pill prescribed to control irregular cycles. This wasn't even about contraception. Add in my wife, who is on the low dose pill for contraception, and I was paying out $2400/year just for the pill. Blue Cross did not cover birth control nor were they required to by law. There were no "government offices" where I could get these prescriptions filled for free. In fact, for most working people with private insurance, they have had to pay 100% of the cost of birth control pills. I am self-employed, and my premiums go up every year, but they went up far less than the savings my family is enjoying under ACA.
Ironically, if I were like many men coming up on 50 who have ED, I could have gotten the little blue pill for just my copay. Sexism anyone???
Another benefit my family gets as a result of the ACA is an extension of the adult child rider program. I have to pay extra for my adult children over 19, but now I can ensure that they have good medical coverage until they finish graduate school instead of cutting them off at 22/23 and looking for some cut rate program through the university they are attending.
The biggest issue with the ACA is probably the premium distribution rules. Essentially, 80% of collected premiums have to be disbursed as benefits, and the threshold goes to 85% for companies above a certain size. This is a much bigger issue with the ACA and the one that seems to be simply ignored in the press.
If you are going to rip on the ACA, at least get a clue.
By the way... adding "tard" to the end of the side you are opposing doesn't make your case any stronger - especially when you are an idiot yourself. I am not left or right, but center. However, this idea that all dems are dummycrats and all republicans are republitards is just plain silly. All American politics is about compromise and not one side has the corner on good ideas or idiocy.
You pretty much nailed it ross. This is a non-issue that has been stirred up by the left for political purpose. Get us arguing with one another, tell a few lies, distract us from the meat of the race and what we should be talking about.
@Purplepinto: I believe Mitch McConnell is a Republican doing the stirring, are you not paying attention.
Chuck
Mc Connell is a pasty, squirrely, RINO of the first order. BUT - he is responding to the BS that was originally started by George Stephanopolus a few debates back. Remember his line of questioning to Romney on this very subject of allegedly outlawing contraception? We were all scratching our heads asking, 'How the hell is this even pertinent? This is a non-issue?!'
Ya, it wasn't quite yet, but that was the first introduction of this campaign by the democrats. When truth and substance can't stand to bolster Obama's campaign, they invent an issue.
@Purplepinto: McConnell is the arch conservative and Republican in command of the Senate republicans.
Your painfully uninformed.
Chuck
You must not have a wife and/or female children who use the pill.
Really... get a clue. The GOP has made this a first amendment issue, when in reality it is a fairness issue. Why are insurance plans required to cover ED medicines but not the pill?
By the way, medicaid sucks. I have worked on medicaid IT systems, and it is bottom of the barrel coverage. You should hope you never need it. The ACA raises the bar for private insurance, but it does not replace it in any way. However, some of the provisions are questionable, and no one really knows the impact of things like premium distribution requirements.
No, you get a clue. I am a wife and mother. I've been on the pill in my 20's. I wasn't flush with cash in my 20's either. I worked corporate jobs with health care plans that sometimes did and sometimes didn't cover the costs. I got birth control all by my little self. Didn't need a government mandate. See how that works?