Freedom isn’t free; someone always has to pay. Of course that someone would be women.

[kpete]

............Your health insurance is through your husband. And your husband’s boss, unfortunately for you, is a conservative Christian who doesn’t believe birth control is God’s plan. So that coverage is not on your policy. And birth control pills are not cheap.

I guess your husband could find another job. But in this economy? And what if he likes his job? Making career decisions based on what kind of prescriptions are covered by the workplace insurance policy is ridiculous. I guess you could get divorced. Sounds extreme, but really: if you get pregnant, I’m sure it’s your own fault for having the misfortune to marry someone who would end up working for a conservative asshole.

The bottom line is, the decision is not yours. It’s not your family’s. In fact, it’s removed from your family completely. It’s already been decided and you had nothing to do with it.

Somehow this is Republican “freedom”: putting women under the thumb of their spouse’s employer. Freedom isn’t free; someone always has to pay. Of course that someone would be women.

http://southernbeale.wordpress.com/

[Rex]

1. Freedom is not free...

If you don't throw in your buck 'o five / Who will?

Ooh buck 'o five / Freedom costs a buck 'o five

[MH1]

2. The difficulty of switching jobs isa BIG reason why health insurance isn't a 'free market'

People really DON'T have the kind of choice they have in an actual free market, because it just isn't that easy to change jobs to get the insurance you want - in ANY economy.

(never mind the moral aspects. and the opaqueness of what market there is.)

The blog makes a good point, but it even if the woman is covered via insurance at her own job, and would be willing to switch jobs - the job switching difficulty remains. It's just worse in the scenario where she's under her spouse's.