Obamacare: The Obama regime will force insurance companies to provide “free” birth control
Nancy Pelosi once famously quipped that the Obamacare law had to be passed so that we could find out what is actually in it, and today we learned that the Obama regime is going to force all insurance companies to pay for birth control without any copays.
Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with insurance companies providing payments for birth control–and in fact according to the article I linked above, most companies do cover birth control although there is usually a copay required–but what I do have a problem with is the federal government telling these private insurers that they must provide payment for birth control, and I have a problem with the federal government demanding that these plans require no copay.
This is something that should be left up to the private insurance agencies; people can choose whether or not to join a plan based on what that plan offers to them, this is a basic tenet of a free market system. If an insurer loses enough customers over the issue of birth control–or any other issue for that matter–whether chosing not to provide birth control coverage, or requiring a copay that too many people feel is too high, the insurer will make the correction based on what the free market dictates.
But the Obama regime has decided that on this issue the insurance companies can no longer enjoy the benefits of the free market system and because of this we can expect the costs of insurance to rise because the insurance companies are not going to absorb the extra cost–they will pass it on to the consumers.
Although the new women’s preventive services will be free of any additional charge to patients, somebody will have to pay. The cost will be spread among other people with health insurance, resulting in slightly higher premiums
Slightly higher premiums, but that is just for this one issue. How many other added costs due to government intrusion will also be absorbed by the American people driving the cost of healthcare even higher? The official name for Obamacare is “The Affordable Care Act” We were sold a bill of goods and in that bill of goods we were promised that Obamacare would help to make more affordable healthcare available to more people, but as we can see in this one example the Obamacare law is going to have the opposite effect.
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The more we learn the worse it gets. If republicans don’t when enough control to revoke Obamacare, we will be a the mercy of the Supreme Court. SCOTUS should find Obamacare unconstitutional but one never knows with these judges. Scary!
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The hits just keep on coming! I hope that we can repeal this after 2012, that is our best option because this will be a 5-4 decision and the outcome is uncertain.
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Well Nancy was right – now that it has passed we are finding out what is in it. Good call Nancy. This is gonna create a snowball rolling down Mt. Everest. By the time it reaches the bottom it will be the size of Texas traveling at Warp 9.
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This is just the tip of the iceburg and it isn’t going to get any better moving forward, the snowball is already rolling!
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Obamacare is the gift the keeps on giving. Yep we need to pass the bill to find out what’s in it. The hits just keep on coming with this train wreck of a law.
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Can you imagine if President Bush has said, “I don’t know what I am signing but I need to sign it in order to find out what I am signing.” The backlash would have been swift and unrelenting, yet Pelosi and the Dems get a free pass.
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Everything that is implemented in Obama care now will be used later against Conservatives. They will say those mean Republicans are trying to take away your (insert your benefit).
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So true, everything given in Obamacare will no be considered a right which cannot be taken away. I think there is enough people in this country opposed to Obamacare to render that arguement null and void but we had better repeal it before it is fully implemented or it will be here to stay.
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I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago. With this as an example, there is no telling what will come out of the Affordable Health Care Act next.
http://www.ldjackson.net/news-politics/insurance-companies-may-be-required-to-offer-contraceptives/
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You were ahead of the curve on this one Larry, I will check out the link.
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