No, I expect you’re living in the general population and I expect that your views are not very different from theirs. That’s what I’m hearing.Oh yeah, I am the one living in a different world
It would truly be interesting having some of you folks in a real life committee discussing these issues.
So you really truly think your taxes aren’t paying for other people’s ABCs? Whatever makes you happy…
Then why did you bring it up?
I’m not happy with a lot of the things the federal government sinks money into. Don’t get me going, Rence. I can’t help who they bomb, which conniving enemies they give foreign aid to, and what money they waste on stupid stuff. But this is different because it’s a frontal direct attack. Unfortunately, it’s one we, as Catholics, helped make possible with our disobedience and sloppiness. That has to end.
Yes, I live in a multi-cultural society.
OH what I’m hearing goes far beyond that, Rence.
Of course not.
I don’t know and that is the difference.
It would have went down more if your employer didn’t have to provide birth control.She does pay for it because the cost is factored into the premiums, deductibles and copays. That’s how group insurance works: some people will use the benefits for something things, but not others. Everyone will not use every benefit available.
The cost of my benefits actually went down Jan 1, 2013 and I still have ABCs coverage in my package.
If your insurance is a benefit your employer is being forced to pay for it. Same for eye care and massages.
Do you think it is wrong that the insurance company must provide a product like ABC that is not health care or insurance?
Do you think it is wrong that the insurance company must provide a product like pork sandwiches that are not health care or insurance?
Tax money still pays for other peoples’ ABCs and people pay it without a fuss. I don’t see people refusing to pay their taxes because part of it pays for other peoples’ ABCs. There is no difference between this mandate and paying taxes: some of both goes to pay for other peoples’ ABCs.
Whatever benefits the employee gets, the employee pays for it too. It’s not like the employer pays it all.
ABCs is a component of women’s healthcare services and is healthcare. It would be immoral of me to use them, per the teachings of the Church. It is not immoral for a noncatholic to take advantage of these benefits according to the teachings of their religion. Most married people can use ABCs with limitations and guidance according to the teachings of their religion.
Pork sandwiches are neither healthcare products, nor immoral…nor are they included in the healthcare mandate.
They’re immoral for practicing Jews, even if they run delis. It’s an analogy, Rence.
ABC is not healthcare, because a person does not need them to be healthy. They are a manufactured option that some people have learned to accept and desire like many other manufactured products.
It’s hard to take someone seriously who makes false claims that ABC is not healthcare because it is, and that’s the way it is. The fact is, it’s something the Catholic Church forbids. That fact doesn’t exclude it from being a component of healthcare.
That’s an unrealistic expectation, but I wouldn’t have a problem with it. By limiting their employees to Catholic only, Catholic universities and hospitals would be shooting themselves in the foot. There’s a big world out there, and not everyone is Catholic. Again, I have no problem with it. But the reason why they don’t only employ Catholics is because they know they’d be limiting themselves.
It’s not healthcare. It’s something you can buy, like a flea collar or a botox job or pierced ears, only more expensive and worse for you. The World Health Organization has classified oral contraceptives as a Class I Carcinogen. Did you know that? You can look it up.
It doesn’t matter. We’re not in competition when it comes to offering those services, solely for the sake of the services, or or the $$$$$ we can haul in for those services. We do charity for another reason. We’re a RELIGION.