hypocrits/assholes/GOP Lawmakers Seek To Deny Coverage To Others That They Enjoy

[kpete]

With War On Contraception, GOP Lawmakers Seek To Deny Coverage To Others That They Enjoy
By Alex Seitz-Wald on Feb 8, 2012 at 1:34 pm

Republican congressional leaders are entering the fray over the Obama administration’s weeks-old decision to require employer-provided health insurance to cover contraception, including for some religious organizations that don’t employ a majority of people of that faith. The decision has been a hot topic on the campaign trail in recent days, but today, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) took the House floor to slam it, calling it an “unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country” and vowed to repeal the regulation. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) had a similarly sharp indictment yesterday. Watch it:

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But missed in this debate is the fact Boehner and McConnell’s own health insurance plans covers contraception, something they now want to deny to others.

Since 1998, every insurer participating in the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP) — including members of Congress — has had access to comprehensive contraceptive coverage, including emergency contraception, such as the morning after pill. Republican lawmakers now want to prevent access to the coverage they enjoy to employees of religious organizations who may not be of that religion or who disagree with anti-contraception doctrine (89 percent of Catholics say contraception decision should be theirs, not the church’s).
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/02/08/421410/with-war-on-contraception-gop-lawmakers-seek-to-deny-coverage-they-enjoy/

[DCKit]

1. If these dumbasses could count, they'd realize this is a really stupid fight to pick.

However, it's also one that works really well for progressives. Hope the show runs until November.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[woodsprite]

3. Since the American people are paying taxes, and those taxes pay

for their health care, I think I should be able to see a report of who in Congress is getting Viagra, birth control, detox services, and maybe a report of total number of congressional abortions covered by the health care we are so generously providing for them.

They don't even have to name names, just publish totals reported by categories Dems and Repubs.

*** I know it could never happen due to HIPAA, but I can wish, can't I.