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-CraZed- on 02 July 2014
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whatever said:
Uddermode said:
whatever said:

This debate is about allowing a company to not follow the law simply because of the owners religion.  That is the debate.  It has nothing to do with being entitled.

I'm fully aware of what the debate is and the debate itself is flawed. I'm a hardcore religious person but religion has no place here. Anybody should be able to deny paying for other people's contraceptives regardless of what they believe in. The money that goes to contraceptives should be covered by the salary of the employee if he choses to spend his money like that but the employer doesn't have to provide extra money or coverage if he does not want to. Paying for contraceptives is like providing a salary, insurances, and then an extra drinking fund so that the workers could go by booze after work, its unneccessary, pointless, and at the cost of the employer for the choices the employee decides to make with the employers money.

Then work to change the law.  I completely disagree with you.  Contraception is an important benefit that should be provided as part of any basic insurance package.  It is nothing like providing a "drinking fund".  There are sometimes health benefits as well as preventing unwanted pregnancies.

Food, water and shelter is an even more component of health (Maslow's hierarchy of needs) than contraceptives so maybe we should relegate salary to "fun" money and just force employers to pay directly for those things absolutely necessary to stay healthy and your wages can be for that drinking fund in question.

While we are at it we can pass laws that force employers to to buy only certain food types (must follow that antiquated and debunked food pyramid they still encourage today), only mineralized, flouridated, reverse osmsis water and a set square footage of housing all dictated by what is deemed to be most healthy for us.

And people did work to change the law. That's why it was struck down by the courts. SOmeone decided to fight against the overreaching encroachment of this type of law and we got a partial victory.

There are far more pressing issues with health care than the need to force other people to pay for contraceptives which, out of all forms of medications, ranks amongst the cheapest and can undoubtedly be afforded by even the least fortunate amongst us. And it isn't like there is a shortage of places that you can already go to get free contraceptives anyways.

People are losing their coverage because of the new healthcare laws, hospitals are losing reimbursements because of the new laws, focus is shifting away from actual medical outcomes and placing more focus on customer satisfaction than ever before (I could give a myriad of reasons for why this is bad) which is causing losses in revenue for hospitals. More and more doctors are being gobble dup into larger health systems to save their private practices from the outrageous mandates of the new health care laws. And people are worried about not being able to force their bosses to pay for their life choices.

Gotta love the priorities of the gimme gimme crowd.