If this was his intent, that was a pretty smooth move.
I paraphrase:
Obama: Birth control should be free for employees of religious based organizations
GOP: What? Are you nuts, that's imposing on religious beliefs. You Muslim Kenyan commie!
Catholic Church: That's right! Contraception is evil even though 99.9 % of women used it. Just abstain from sex. Just say no. STOP ALL THAT LAUGHING!
Insurance companies: Uh..we're cool with this. Babies cost a s**t-ton of our money. We like our money and want to keep it.
Obama: OK, OK, stop all that bitching. Religious based organizations don't have offer free birth control, but, the insurance companies should be allowed to contact ladies directly. Religious based employers are off the hook.
Catholic Church: YaaaY! We win!
Insurance companies: Yes *you* won..(snickers). Time to print some literature saying "Babies cost money! Let us tell you about this cool thing called an IUD. Its Free! Get your party on". Get me the mass mailing department!
Ladies: Wait.. contraception is free? *snaps fingers*. Obama 2012!
Obama: I compromised for the good of all Americans (snickers).
GOP: What just happened? Why is Ashton Kutcher laughing over there?
Before this ban by the churches, I'm pretty sure they would have found upon any employees taking advantage of such a service-- now, women get privately contacted and the church doesn't Kwon a thing about it!
So it looks like their gambit just bit these authoritarians in the ass! Score one for the good guys,
...so that's like: Fascists 2309 -- Progressives 2. Because we stopped SOPA from passing for a few weeks. Sure the score may look a bit stacked against us -- but a week ago that was 2308 to 0. liberty and justice are picking up steam!
They don't care about the kids once they are born, they would rather the kids starve and die on the streets... but heaven forbid a women get birth control!
We'll actually be paying less for our insurance. More birth control is a *very* effective way to reduce medical costs and insurance costs, so the insurance companies will save a lot of money this way.
Yeah, only the poor have health insurance. The rich don't have health insurance and certainly wouldn't consider having their insurance cover most of the cost of contraceptives. Also, down is up.
Gee, guess you missed the point. The issue was them having to offer the option offer the extra coverage, and have to help pay for the birth control if they were a catholic owned business.
But they got rendered mute by an opt-out that lets the insurance company offer it.
And regardless they are caught having to pay for contraceptives one way or another.
I don't understand how republicans view the world sometimes. Aren't all republicans in that "save money for big businesses and it trickles down to us" boat?
Well insurance companies are big businesses
Contraceptives save them money
Less insurance premiums
That should be very easy to understand, even by YOUR faulty logic
If Obama did this brilliant bit of Judo on a wider scale... My fantasy is that January 2013, Rove Rumsfeld Bush Cheney -- and a few dozen others get jailed and tried by the anti constitutional tyranny they helped to create.
What if all this time Obama was pretending to play ball -- he was actually using his Domestic spying powers to gather evidence on the neocons and fifth-columnists like the Koch brothers?
We probably aren't this lucky, but a guy can dream, can't he?
theghoulFeb 12, 2012Buried
If this was his intent, that was a pretty smooth move.
I paraphrase:
Obama: Birth control should be free for employees of religious based organizations
GOP: What? Are you nuts, that's imposing on religious beliefs. You Muslim Kenyan commie!
Catholic Church: That's right! Contraception is evil even though 99.9 % of women used it. Just abstain from sex. Just say no. STOP ALL THAT LAUGHING!
Insurance companies: Uh..we're cool with this. Babies cost a s**t-ton of our money. We like our money and want to keep it.
Obama: OK, OK, stop all that bitching. Religious based organizations don't have offer free birth control, but, the insurance companies should be allowed to contact ladies directly. Religious based employers are off the hook.
Catholic Church: YaaaY! We win!
Insurance companies: Yes *you* won..(snickers). Time to print some literature saying "Babies cost money! Let us tell you about this cool thing called an IUD. Its Free! Get your party on". Get me the mass mailing department!
Ladies: Wait.. contraception is free? *snaps fingers*. Obama 2012!
Obama: I compromised for the good of all Americans (snickers).
GOP: What just happened? Why is Ashton Kutcher laughing over there?
generalbulldogFeb 11, 2012Buried
Well played, Mr. President.
vitriolandangstFeb 12, 2012Buried
Wouldn't taxpayers pay more if women who cannot afford kids had babies? Doesn't paying for birth control save more money?
Either some people are never satisfied -- or they have been lying about their true motives.
vitriolandangstFeb 12, 2012Buried
The result will be MORE birth control!
Before this ban by the churches, I'm pretty sure they would have found upon any employees taking advantage of such a service-- now, women get privately contacted and the church doesn't Kwon a thing about it!
So it looks like their gambit just bit these authoritarians in the ass! Score one for the good guys,
...so that's like: Fascists 2309 -- Progressives 2. Because we stopped SOPA from passing for a few weeks. Sure the score may look a bit stacked against us -- but a week ago that was 2308 to 0. liberty and justice are picking up steam!
TaliscatFeb 12, 2012Buried
They don't care about the kids once they are born, they would rather the kids starve and die on the streets... but heaven forbid a women get birth control!
mortventFeb 12, 2012Buried
And the funny thing is, it's not about paying for it.
Any money paid to an insurance company will go in one big pot, so the only way out of paying is to not buy any health insurance.
But there is also the catch 22 on your taxes, which help fund government health care plans which will all include contraceptives in their coverage.
So regardless they are paying for them.
CliftonForceFeb 12, 2012Buried
We'll actually be paying less for our insurance. More birth control is a *very* effective way to reduce medical costs and insurance costs, so the insurance companies will save a lot of money this way.
mortventFeb 12, 2012Buried
You got an out on offering it, but you still have to pay for it.
And it's not for just poor people ya know. Most poor people that the church claims to want to help rarely have health insurance.
brewbeauFeb 12, 2012Buried
Yeah, only the poor have health insurance. The rich don't have health insurance and certainly wouldn't consider having their insurance cover most of the cost of contraceptives. Also, down is up.
vitriolandangstFeb 12, 2012Buried
Crap, typing a lot on an iPad can take its toll on spelling -- I'm still getting used to the auto-correct!
Kwon should be know and found should be frown.... There almost as many spelling Nazis on Digg as real Nazis on Digg.
geejayeFeb 12, 2012Buried
Read the article: "contraception actually saves insurance companies money, since it's far cheaper than childbirth."
roguegeniusFeb 12, 2012Buried
If that was caving then I hope he caves on a few more things. Well don't Mr. President. Well done.
bookantFeb 12, 2012Buried
" . . . the all-powerful left academia . . . "
You really do live in your own "special" little world, don't you. And to be clear, I mean "special" in the "I ride the short bus" sense of the word.
TaliscatFeb 12, 2012Buried
I think from his past posts he means the Catholics are paying for contraception regardless of having to offer it in a company plan
mortventFeb 12, 2012Buried
Gee, guess you missed the point. The issue was them having to offer the option offer the extra coverage, and have to help pay for the birth control if they were a catholic owned business.
But they got rendered mute by an opt-out that lets the insurance company offer it.
And regardless they are caught having to pay for contraceptives one way or another.
pdpgtiFeb 12, 2012Buried
I don't understand how republicans view the world sometimes. Aren't all republicans in that "save money for big businesses and it trickles down to us" boat?
Well insurance companies are big businesses
Contraceptives save them money
Less insurance premiums
That should be very easy to understand, even by YOUR faulty logic
mortventFeb 12, 2012Buried
It's always been about the easier access to contraceptives, everything else was a smokescreen
jdog7117Feb 12, 2012Buried
I really had to check twice to make sure this title wasn't for the Onion.
mlw4428Feb 12, 2012Buried
Lamar Smith was THE main supporter (he was THE man who introduced it) of SOPA.
A Republican from Texas.
He still wants to go forward with it.
vitriolandangstFeb 12, 2012Buried
If Obama did this brilliant bit of Judo on a wider scale... My fantasy is that January 2013, Rove Rumsfeld Bush Cheney -- and a few dozen others get jailed and tried by the anti constitutional tyranny they helped to create.
What if all this time Obama was pretending to play ball -- he was actually using his Domestic spying powers to gather evidence on the neocons and fifth-columnists like the Koch brothers?
We probably aren't this lucky, but a guy can dream, can't he?