The GOP Plan to Give Your Boss "Moral" Control Over Your Health Insurance - Mother Jones

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http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/republican-plan-give-bosses-moral-control-health-insurance

(all emphases are my own_Bill USA)

[font size="3"]In their latest move in the battle over contraception coverage, top Republicans in Congress are going for broke: They're now pushing a bill that would allow employers and insurance companies to pick and choose which health benefits to provide based simply on executives' personal moral beliefs.[/font] Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the top GOPer in the Senate, has already endorsed the proposal, and it could come to a vote this week. The measure would make the religious exemptions to President Barack Obama's health care bill so large they'd swallow it whole.

"This is about gutting the Affordable Care Act and the protections it was meant to establish," says Leila Abolfazli, a lawyer focusing at the National Women's Law Center who focuses on health and reproductive rights.

Obama's Affordable Care Act requires all health care plans to offer certain services and benefits, including birth control. Last week, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) offered a "conscience amendment," to the law, pitching it as a way to allay religious employers' qualms about providing birth control to their employees.

But Blunt's proposal doesn't just apply to religious employers and birth control. Instead, it would allow any insurer or employer, religiously affiliated or otherwise, to opt out of providing any health care services required by federal law—everything from maternity care to screening for diabetes. Employers wouldn't have to cite religious reasons for their decision; they could just say the treatment goes against their moral convictions. That exception could include almost anything—an employer could theoretically claim a "moral objection" to the cost of providing a given benefit. The bill would also allow employers to sue if state or federal regulators try to make them comply with the law.
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Well, this would be consistent with their goal of a Corporate Feudalist state. With the corporations as the new Lords and anybody who works for a living as the new serfs, this would be about right. The Lord pretty much determined everything pertaining to how a serf could live his life.

Corporations/CEOs will control what you can do in your personal life. Yep, that sounds just about right.

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1. Oxymoron

The term Health insurance is an Oxymoron. It no longer exists.