Posted on 03/25/2010 7:14:15 PM PDT by TigerBait
EMAIL FRIEND | PRINT ARTICLE | 45 COMMENTS | SHARE March 24, 2010 Amish, Muslims to be excused from Obamacare mandate? WordWayze The Senate health care bill just signed contains some exemptions to the "pay-or-play" mandate requiring purchase of Obamacare-approved health insurance or payment of a penalty fine. As Fox News has pointed out, for instance, the Amish are excused from the mandate:
So while most Americans would be required to sign up with insurance companies or government insurance plans, the church would serve as something of an informal insurance plan for the Amish.
Law experts say that kind of exemption withstands scrutiny.
"Here the statute is going to say that people who are conscientiously opposed to paying for health insurance don't have to do it where the conscientious objection arises from religion," said Mark Tushnet a Harvard law professor. "And that's perfectly constitutional."
Apparently, this exemption will apply similarly to believers in Islam, which considers health insurance - and, for that matter, any form of risk insurance - to be haraam (forbidden).
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
If Muslims and illegals are exempted (Amish pay their own way) then that defeats the purpose and all of us should have the option of opting out if we feel strongly that we don't want to purchase insurance.
Guess I’ll become Amish... we’ll all be living that way anyway under this ass.
When you fill out the census,claim "JEDI Knights" as your religion, then we can get an exemption.
So are the rest of us. Obama just doesn’t know it yet.
Oh no they get it. They are just exempt from paying for it.
So is communism. The poor basterds have us surrounded.
Oh good! Useful information just in time to fill out that nosey census......
However, I've been waiting to see - and expected to see - that bambi’s favored people would also be exempt, due to their religion. If they do the same as the Amish - fine -
But do they pay their own bills?
And how do they drive without car insurance.
Are Americans going to made to pay higher and higher premiums to pay their bills?
We know bambi would see this as right- redistribute the wealth in his eyes is ‘from whitey to Muzzies’ - and the blacks are starting to get a clue. they've been had.
A conscientious objection based on religion is Constitutional.
But a Constitutional objection based on the Constitution is Unconstitutional.
I’m speechless at this logic. How very lawyerly.
So THAT’s why Obama had that slipped in there — another stick-it-to-whitey attack. That should have been obvious but eluded me.
He started this fiasco spouting off about so many poor, uninsured people in America!!
Good point. Sending in our comments to published comments will take getting use to. I’m gonna make a fake solar panel to power my puter as I detest mailing anything.
Brother Mcshotlin Cornshucker signin out.
You’ve converted me
Figures.
Ever since this administration began there has been something A’mish...
Wow, devote Muslims consider any form of risk insurance haraam, who knew?
I guess the OmamaCare bill still leaves another 30 million people without health care insurance in America. Why did Congress and him spend a year getting this bill rammed down our throats?
The Indian tribes are exempt too. I think I’m part Indian. I wonder if it’s enough.
The problem I see with this article is that there are definitely Muslims where I work, we definitely have health care insurance, and I’ve never heard any of them express any issue with it.
“Here the statute is going to say that people who are conscientiously opposed to paying for health insurance don’t have to do it where the conscientious objection arises from religion,” said Mark Tushnet a Harvard law professor. “And that’s perfectly constitutional.”
So does this mean if any part of this bill pays for any abortions at all one can bow out for religious conscientious objection? Oh the sweet irony! The Demonrats just had to have their baby killer funding in the bill and now it may allow us to bow out?
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