Look at Obamas #1 position - absolute mandate.
Then look at #2 - “the accomodation”, which merely shifts the responsibility for payment without altering the mandate.
Anyone care to guess what #3 will be? Rest assured it will not be complete recapitulation. That’s not in the playbook.
Already falling back to position #2 has gained a great deal of support from Catholics and others. He’ll probably fight like hell to go no further, and if he wins, he’s really won everything he wanted.
It is evil and wrong, but it is not a rookie mistake.
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You absolutely nailed it. Leftist ploy and never giving ground. The Catholics are nuts to fall for it.
I would leave the system and self insure. Let the government monies go.
Yep, some lib female university prof was on Fox just eating up Obama’s “accomodation” with a spoon, you just just tell she was thrilled to have her idol back, having so skillfully negotiated this issue in such a clever fashion. It was a real barfer!
Your mention of self-insurance brings up a good point: what about Catholic or other religious institutions that are self-insured? Now that the insurance companies are mandated by Obamacare to cover contraception, for them this means there is absolutely NO accomodation, since they set their own money aside to pay for their healthcare benefits anyway. All most self-insured organizations do is hire some third party to handle claims and paperwork, but there truly is no “insurance” in the sense of shared risk, it’s all their own money.
I guess that’s just one of those things you don’t know is in the bill until after you sign it...