Families Face Moral Dilemmas With Obamacare

National Catholic Register ^ | 11/6/2013 | PETER JESSERER SMITH

[markomalley]

The disastrous rollout of President Barack Obama’s signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), has challenged the president’s famous promise: “If you like your plan, you can keep it; if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.”

But according to Catholic and other Christian critics, Obamacare appears also to say that if a person likes his morals, he can’t keep those either.

Scott Griswold, a Catholic insurance agent in South Carolina, said health insurance has been part of his insurance business for more than two decades. But the ACA’s mandates have made him decide that his conscience won’t allow him to sell health policies in the future.

“I’m going to continue to take care of the folks I’ve sold policies to in the past, but, morally, I just can’t sell coverage for birth control, abortifacients, morning-after pills and sterilizations,” he said.

New insurance plans under the ACA must include these services as an “essential health benefit,” free of charge to the consumer. These services, mandated by the Department of Health and Human Services, are the core of U.S. Catholics’ legal battles with the federal government.

“I just don’t want any part of it,” Griswold said.

[Jacquerie]

Few men put their morals ahead of their livelihood.

THAT is virtue.

[shankbear]

But catholics line up and vote for these lying liberals at every given opportunity. Stupid is as stupid does.

[Graybeard58]

But catholics line up and vote for these lying liberals at every given opportunity. Stupid is as stupid does

We've got them in my Baptist church too friend.

[shankbear]

Ain’t nobody gonna bite Santa Claus’ hand......some are producers....some are takers.

[yldstrk]

I agree, this guy is more worried about what God put him here on earth to do, good for him

[sickoflibs]

RE “I’m going to continue to take care of the folks I’ve sold policies to in the past, but, morally, I just can’t sell coverage for birth control, abortifacients, morning-after pills and sterilizations,” he said.
New insurance plans under the ACA must include these services as an “essential health benefit,” free of charge to the consumer. These services, mandated by the Department of Health and Human Services, are the core of U.S. Catholics’ legal battles with the federal government. “

Abortion coverage is mandated with the others?

This doesnt sound right.

[MrB]

I will NOT join Obamacare.
When it comes down to it, I will be on Samaritan Ministries.

[Jacquerie]

Stupid is as stupid does.

As you illustrate so well.

[KeyLargo]

Bullyboy White House aide sparks outrage by ‘smearing’ terminal cancer patient who dared speak out against Obamacare

Dan Pfeiffer, the top White House communications strategist, tweeted out a liberal organization’s hit piece on Edie Sundby’s insurance company
Pfeiffer has one of the few ‘official’ White House Twitter accounts
The story ran on the Think Progress blog, a project of the Center for American Progress – run by a former Clinton White House chief of staff
It alleged Sundby’s now-famous health insurance limbo is United Healthcare’s fault, not Obamacare’s
Sundby, who has battled gallbladder cancer for nearly seven years, wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed about how Obamacare will affect her health
Her insurance plan will be canceled next month, leaving her to choose between one government plan that won’t cover her primary care doctor and another that won’t cover her oncologist
Obama had claimed Americans could keep their doctors after Obamacare became law: ‘What happened to the president’s promises?’ she asked

Read at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2487518/Stage-4-cancer-sufferer-unhappy-Obamacare-gets-White-House-pushback.html