So, here’s an easy one for you, K-RAT. This one will work, too.
Have the United States Public Health Service subsidize the production, distribution and sale of contraceptives. Leave them prescription only, but make them cheap.
Conservatives show ignorance about how the world works? Color me shocked! I thought Ayn Rand basically covered everything.
They can’t pass laws or allocate funds.
The ultimate solution is single payer.
No boner pills for you GUYS.
I don’t care how sharp their legal minds are - these guys do not worry about this stuff personally and probably haven’t had to for decades. Their spouses probably take care of the household nuts and bolts. I am often surprised at how my educated, thoughtful, intelligent husband cannot seem to fathom the simplest domestic or school related tasks that usually fall to me to handle.
Don’t get them started on why there are mice in the office.
It’s not their ox being gored, so they don’t care. Maybe they need a little tutorial from the mrses.
As I have already ranted, the Male SC Justices also seem to not understand contraceptives pills and the range of doses and side effects…and the importance of finding just the right one for each patient. It’s not like it is just one pill for everyone.
I had horrible side effects when I tried the pill and just stopped but I have friends who have had to go back several times until the right dose was found…and this was with a doctor who was already familiar w/ them and their medical history.
I don’t think the conservative justices give a crap about how disruptive this would be to women and how they will have to take extra time off (which their stingy religious employers will likely not allow or pay for) to see an additional doctor…it’s total bullshit.
There really is no equivalent for me. Boner pills? Sure, but not really.
It pisses me off that the justices are too lazy to take the time to learn a little bit about something they are passing a law about…
Terrifying!
This goes beyond simple “judicial activism”. This is the Supreme Court acting as all three branches of government.
I was taken aback by Roberts suggesting that the administration just not enforce a section of the ACA. Is he really saying it is okay to pick and choose which parts of the law to follow and which to ignore? Granted, that is done a lot these days, but I never knew the SCOTUS would encourage it. Scalia lives!
I still don’t see how even if there were the option of a contraceptive policy that this would solve the supposed problem. If it’s currently an infringement on wingers’ religious liberty for them to op out and have the gummint deal with the issue, why would it not also be an infringement if the gummint set up the possibility of contraceptive-only policies? Denying contraceptives to employees would still trigger the process enabling women to get contraception coverage. We would soon see that case being argued before the Supreme Court. Just the dumbest “debate” I’ve ever heard.
No, Congress has to do that. Which is why we won’t have any solution.
And yes, single payer is the answer. The problem is that the Gaping Orifice Party doesn’t know what the question is.
Verrilli was willing to play along in the “hypothetical world” where women could simply access contraceptive coverage through the exchanges and that system, he pointed out, would undercut the very point of requiring preventive care in the first place by adding hurdles to access.
But the idea of contraceptive-only plans also defies health care economics 101.
So why did he waste time “playing along” and indulging the right-wingers fantasy instead of strongly pointing out it was a fantasy?
Equivalents for men are hypertension medication and statins (to lower cholesterol levels). Blood pressure meds have side effects and it’s often necessary to try a couple to find what works and what dose is necessary. Statins have similar issues.
The problem is that women also have those problems. They just get blessed with an additional one: SCOTUS.
Because insulting people you’d like to rule in your favor is not usually a good idea.
Meh, you can refuse to indulge someones counter-factual fantasies without being insulting about it.
Perhaps you could set up a system (it would only take a couple of years to pass the enabling legislation through congress and every single state legislature in the union, I’m sure) where all insurance companies that offered group insurance policies to employers would be required to also offer free contraception-only individual policies on the exchanges, and those policies would only be open to (or wanted by) women who were already beneficiaries of the non-contraceptiion-covering group policies sold by those same companies. That would only cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to put together and administer but that’s a small price to pay for making a few religious nutters feel better.
Except that matthew1961 is right, they’d be back in court the next day arguing that simply by offering their employees health-insurance benefits they had become complicit in contraception, but that their religious beliefs also required them to offer employer-paid health insurance.
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