Oppose new rule requiring double billing in service of religion

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Last week, the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) released a proposed rule that would require ACA marketplace plans to send consumers a specific “abortion bill” each month, representing the share of their premium going toward covering abortion services. Consumers would be required to pay this bill separately.

This seemingly innocuous proposed rule, said to “protect rights of conscience,” is another insidious attempt by the Trump-Pence administration to impose discriminatory barriers to women’s health care in the name of religious liberty.

CMS is accepting public comments on this proposal right now. Click on “TAKE ACTION” link below and then click on the blue “Comment Now!” button in the upper righthand corner. Please feel free to use or adapt the talking points provided below.

take action link
https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CMS_FRDOC_0001-2506

TALKING POINTS

As a taxpayer, I am dismayed by the unnecessary and burdensome proposed rule, file code CMS-9922-P. It purports to protect rights of conscience, but it is clearly a religiously motivated attempt to create additional barriers to women being able to exercise their right to choose. The rule does not protect religion, it imposes religion on consumers.

Secondly, the rule is burdensome and confusing for consumers. Forcing customers to decipher and pay two separate bills for the same premium is ludicrous. It is unimaginable that this same practice would be implemented for other routine health care procedures. Therefore, it is clear that advancing religion, specifically conservative or evangelical Christianity, is the true purpose of this rule.

I strongly disapprove of and urge the department not to move forward with this proposal. It puts undue burden on both consumers and health care providers in the name of elevating religion and has no place in public policy. Thank you.

[rzemanfl]

1. If Gillum doesn't win I want to pay my sales tax seperately with a check

so I can write "under protest" on it. Makes more sense than this crazy shit.

[dameatball]

2. As a non-smoker I probably get a small discount on my insurance rates. That is a measurable medical

reality that my provider acknowledges. "Rights of conscience" are not the same thing as far as health goes.

[Moostache]

3. They can have this BS when they offset with one adoption per citation...

Its time for these "pro-life" hypocrites to stop simply being anti-woman and actually start being "pro-life"... not just washing their hands post-labor (you know that part of all of this that the misogynist bastards REALLY want....to punish the infidel Jezebels for the temerity of sex for recreation alone and not solely for procreation, or for the blasphemy of daring to control their own bodies instead of living by-your-leave to a male controller) and birth.

They can start by becoming conscientious objectors to ALL war. They claim to love life, yet they will not celebrate the defense of the single greatest killing force in human history - warfare?

They can adopt all unwanted children AND provide food, shelter, care and nurturing for these babies too...
They can start with policies to improve the environment and long-term prospects of the globe...

There are about a million different things that they CAN do but will not...so UNTIL they do, F' them all!!!!

[gratuitous]

4. Can we do the same thing with military expenditures?

Asking for a Quaker friend.

Asking for a Mennonite friend.

Asking for a Church of the Brethren friend.