… We shall see next year how many people still believe in the illusions of unicorns, pixie dust and better living through government fiat. Obama is playing to his core constituency, the something for nothing crowd. Meanwhile, from the pulpits in the diocese in which I live – from the out-of-town parishes to the downtown cathedral – silence remains the Church’s most-used method to communicate basic Christian moral teaching to the laity. The contempt that President Obama has shown towards Christians is almost palpable. ![]() However, to characterize this as a direct “mockery” of the bishops is stretching things quite a bit. It may also be fair to say that these remarks indicate a lack of concern about the violation of religious freedom involved. In any event, it is certainly fair to say that this exchange indicates the depth of Obama’s committment to passing these regulations. All of these practices have, however, been common among health insurance companies (because of the very nature of insurance, which is based on minimizing risk to the insurance provider from a purely economic point of view, covering a preexisting condition makes as much sense as selling someone fire insurance AFTER their house has burned down, but I digress.) Nor is refusal to cover preexisting conditions a hallmark of Catholic medical ethics. When Obama says “they” won’t be able to deny coverage, he obviously is talking about insurance companies (a favorite bete noire of the left), NOT bishops.Īs far as I know, no Catholic institution has ever objected on moral grounds to covering genuine preventive health care such as mammograms. “They have to cover things like mammograms and contraception as preventive care, no more out-of-pocket costs.” “Darn tooting,” Obama answered back-to laughter. “No longer can insurance companies discriminate against women just because you guys are the ones who have to give birth.”Īt this point, a member of a laughing audience shouted out: “Darn right!” ![]() “Breast cancer, cervical cancer, are no longer preexisting conditions,” Obama continued. “At that point, an audience member shouted: “Birth control.” Think about what that means for families all across America. “They won’t be able to deny your coverage because of preexisting conditions. “Insurance companies can’t drop your coverage for no good reason,” said Obama. This is what the linked-to story actually said: Well, let’s take a look at these remarks in context. All I have to say about that is read it and weep.“Affirming a ‘shout out’ at violating religious freedom is mocking the bishops.” Do you want your tax dollars to subsize Sally Mae's CEO's golf excusions and private jets. Obama simply cut out the middleman saving the federal government 61 billion dollars in indirect subsidies government supported private enterprises like Sally Mae. Do you oppose this, or are you fine with your bank taking your deposits and betting them on Icelandic or Greek Bonds? The big accomplishment there was the Volker Rule which prevents commerical banks insured by FDIC from gambling with depositors money. I take it you full support insurance companies right to drop long time payees the moment they get sick. Do you believe an insurance company should be able to drop someone for a pre-existing condition? In some cases it was as high as 22% of people who had insurance were being droped when they got sick for some BS even though the insurance company had no problems taking their premiums when they were healthy. The GOP was absolutely wrong to oppose most of those things. They even sent fake negotiators to try and string things along. During the first two years the Republicans did everything humanly possible to slow things down. The GOP was RIGHT to oppose all of that, even though they couldn't stop the democrats (who OWN all of it) from shoving the law down the throats of the American people. Does that include the FIRST TWO YEARS, where he passed everything he wanted, including obamacare, Dodd-Frank, the Failed Stimulus and took over the student process?
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