Obama chief of staff: No more compromise, contraceptive rule is done deal (FUBO!)

Despite renewed statements of concern by Catholic leaders, the Obama administration is done negotiating and will finalize its plan requiring insurance companies to provide free contraception to women working and studying at religious institutions, President Obama's chief of staff said Sunday.

Jacob Lew told "Fox News Sunday" that the compromise offered last week to address objections by the Catholic Church is clear and consistent with the president's "very deep belief that a woman has a right to all forms of preventive health care, including contraception."

"We have set out our policy," Lew said. "We are going to finalize it in the final rules, but I think what the president announced on Friday is a balanced approach that meets the concerns raised both in terms of access to health care and in terms of protecting religious liberties, and we think that's the right approach."

On Friday, Obama revised his decision to require all employers to provide contraceptive care after Catholic organizations balked that it is an intrusion on the Church's religious liberty to require it to provide birth control. The president changed the mandate to shift the burden to insurance companies to provide free access to birth control and other forms of contraception.

Precisely. That's what's so scary about this whole thing. The way the health care bill was rammed through congress and the bypassing of the legislative process in its implementation is setting us up for some tough times ahead.

As St. Pelosi condescendingly deigned to tell us so long ago, we will learn what's in the law after "they pass it."
Well, we sure continue to learn, don't we.

I just had an interesting thought: if this giant Obamacare law was passed by members of Congress who admit they didn't even read it, and is so large that, most likely, no one person could read and understand it, how would it be possible for anyone to state firmly what the actual text is? For example, if Obama wanted to implement some new hare-brained idea, what would stop him from replacing the current page 5,003 with an entirely different page 5,003 which says something entirely different, and then saying that it was there all along, a la Animal Farm? And that's not even taking into consideration a judge who is in Obama's pocket who merely creatively interprets known text to say whatever Obama wants it to say, despite the actual text. You know, like they do with the Constitution now.

Why does everyone adopt their Language and argue the issue according to the way they Frame it. If you agree that Obama has the Authority to Compromise on your God Given rights according to the Constitution,then it is over,he has no Authority to Trample your Constitutional Right to Practice your Faith and he does Not have the authority to Order Insurance companies to cover anything and what to charge for it so lets stop jumping up and down and trying to Rationalize all these left wing Absurdities. Someone in authority should hold a News Conference and say the President is out of Control and is Violating his Oath of Office on a daily basis and he should skip a Round of Golf and get a Copy of The Constitution for Dummies

Well, there are some (many actually) places that the text of that monstrosity (as passed) are archived. But they don't even need to resort to that level of sleight of hand since the vast majority of the details (such as these policy directives that are currently being discussed) are not spelled out in the original bill. They have been left for existing (and literally dozens & dozens of new) bureaucratic agencies to draft and develop. Since its passage there are now buildings (many new ones at that) and buildings filled with bureaucrats writing the detailed rules and policy that will choke this country to death.

This was something that Steve King & Michele Bachmann tried to get defunded immediately after the 2010 election that gave the Rs control of the House. They tried to get Boehner & company to defund the $105 Billion that was pre-authorized to start the implementation of the bill. Needless to say their plan fell by the wayside as the Establishment would not go along with their effort.

What gives him the right to issue a mandate such as this?

Why will the insurance companies just go along?

Anybody hear of the tea party?

Just don’t go along. What can this guy do if the insurance companies don’t go along? The answer is nothing. He would be dead in the water until November when he will surely be gone now.

What gives him the right to issue a mandate such as this?

Why will the insurance companies just go along?

Anybody hear of the tea party?

Just don’t go along. What can this guy do if the insurance companies don’t go along? The answer is nothing. He would be dead in the water until November when he will surely be gone now.

no done deal......ask these folks!

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People should march in the streets over this. If the MSM refutes to cover them—They should march on the News Stations and bring down their towers. Then they may cover the displeasure of the people. Maybe his Holiness, the Pope, should be urged to brand Obama—”Anti-Christ” as they did to Napoleon.

Actually, this is not really “bypassing Congress” ... it is written in the ObamaCare bill that the “Secretary will decide” many issues like this.

What actually bypassed Congress is the unfathomable way the whole bill was shoved down America’s throat, and “pass the bill” so now we “see what is in the bill”.

It is not only Catholics who are upset by this determination by the executive. There are many others, including those who are not at all religious, who are similarly disturbed by the way this tramples on conscience. In addition, the “new decision” that was announced on Friday even expanded the sphere of people who might be disturbed, since the administration revealed that they believe that they can repeal Laws of Economics and simply dictate that something be “free”. They have revealed themselves to be incredibly naive about economic matters by this, in addition to be incredibly naive about Faith and Conscience.

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