Here's all you need to know about the B.O. birth control pill mandate "accommodation". . .
From the Wall Street Journal:
From the Wall Street Journal:
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Insurance companies won't be making donations. Drug makers will still charge for the pill. Doctors will still bill for reproductive treatment. The reality, as with all mandated benefits, is that these costs will be borne eventually via higher premiums. The balloon may be squeezed differently over time, and insurers may amortize the cost differently over time, but eventually prices will find an equilibrium. Notre Dame will still pay for birth control, even if it is nominally carried by a third-party corporation.
This cut-out may appease a few of the Administration's critics, especially on the Catholic left—but only if they want to be deceived again, having lobbied for the Affordable Care Act that created the problem in the first place. The faithful for whom birth control is a matter of religious conviction haven't been accommodated at all. They'll merely have to keep two sets of accounting books.
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As reporting by Bloomberg and ABC this week has made clear, the contraception mandate was fiercely opposed within the Administration, including by Vice President Joe Biden. The larger tragedy is that none of them objected to government health care, which will always take choices away from individuals and arrogate them to an infallible higher power in Washington. Who was it again who claimed that if you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan?
And this Bitter Pill of a compromise is not made any easier to swallow by the endorsements of both NARAL and Planned Parenthood. Sr. Keehan of the Catholic Health Association put her stamp of approval on this "accommodation." All this means is that the Good Sister is being used a propaganda tool.
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I got that email from the White House celebrating the "compromise." It looked fishy, but before I even read commentary, I knew there was something hugely wrong, because of the motley crew that endorsed it. Seriously. Mr. President, if Planned Parenthood likes it, Catholics won't. Please don't waste our time.
ReplyDeleteLynn, lauding the endorsements of NARAL and PP is meant to placate the militant ideologues of his base. BO doesn't want to be seen as bending his pro-abortion agenda to pressure from those patriarchal neanderthals, the bishops. He thinks that including Sr Keehan in the endorsement will placate Catholics. Little does he know. . .or want to know.
ReplyDeleteOh, I know. I am having trouble wrapping my brain around the idea that he really, truly, doesn't. get. it.
ReplyDeleteOnce again our American bishops have demonstrated that as a group, they are whimpering cowards, utterly useless to us. I say this because Sister Carol Keehan is on the scene again, once again flipping the bird to the Church. The bishops not only had every right, they had a serious, moral responsibility to the faith and to the faithful to correct Sister Keehan publicly after her last attempt to construct a "magisterium of nuns," and once again, they weren't quite up to the task, O-N-C-E A-G-A-I-N!!! Once again, Most Reverend Bishops, you have failed us. The Church in the United States might very well not survive its present difficulties, but if she does survive, it will not in the least, not in any way, shape or form be due to the hierarchy! Will you wake up or resign, please?!
ReplyDeleteSr. Keehan needs to be booted. Who exactly has jurisdiction over her?
ReplyDeleteWhy, her local bishop, of course!
ReplyDeleteDoesn't Sister Keehan EVER consult with the bishops before making her public statements? Is it unreasonable to want a large and national Catholic entity to brush its ideas by the Magisterium before making public statements that will greatly influence the public debate? I have often wondered why the Church (whoever that means: the bishops, priests, even the Vatican since apparently the LCWR nuns won the latest battle against Rome over the ill-fated Sisters' Visitation) completely backs down when the modern Sisters act. What's that all about?
ReplyDeleteSr. Keehan earns almost a $1m a year. Her goal is keeping hospitals profitable. I doubt she's worried about the bishops or the faith or much of anything other than the bottomline and her lefty ideology.
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