another email I just sent to Morning Joe re: Coburn's statement today on the show.

[CTyankee]

background: when Mika asked about what would happen to the minimum wage female worker at a hospital who needs contraception coverage, Coburn responded that she could just "go down to her county health department and get free birth control."

Here's my email:

"So, Coburn says those minimum wage women workers can just "go down to the county health department" for their free birth control. Uh huh. Oh, I get it:
"Here you go, sir, no hassle with you getting Viagra to fix your little ED problem! But you, lady, you gotta take time off work even if it costs you lost wages, take a trip to the county health dept. (find your own damn transportation), fill out a bunch of forms and sit and wait for somebody to start the paperwork, then wait for however long it takes to get you approved and give you that prescription, which you can take to a pharmacy and have filled!"

Yeah, that's fair..."

Yep, I'm mad...

[blm]

1. they don't 'get' it...because they don't WANT to 'get' it

they know they're full of shit and being obtuse suits their needs

[CTyankee]

2. this reminds me of what women had to do to get an abortion pre-Roe.

A dear lady I knew back in the 80s told me about her experience trying to get a legal abortion in CT before Roe. She had to get a psychiatrist to testify that having a 4th child would make her so unstable mentally she wouldn't be able to function (as a wife and mother presumably). It was a ghastly process but strong lady that she was, she was determined and had the abortion. If they had ruled against her, she said she would have travelled abroad for the abortion...

[Capitalocracy]

7. I agree with this assessment.

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

[all american girl]

3. You know what I find so funny about all this

My husband is in the Army-over 21 years and we have been married for over 20 years-during that time, the Army health care has paid for my birth control and my husband's vasectomy...Government tax dollars. Where's the outcry about that...believe me, the military does not want us to have 10 kids. That's more dollars, long term, they have to pay...health care costs and moving costs as examples. I think if it's good enough for the military, it's good enough for everyone else...

[Lionessa]

4. Not to mention instead of costing the insurance company, it'd cost taxpayers.

[PRETZEL]

5. ok, let me see if I can wrap my head around this

so, it's Coburn's position that the employees of those institutions and facilities have to go and use "government" health care as opposed to using private insurance?

Am I missing the dot to where R's now favor a government sponsored health care?

[ellenfl]

6. you should send that logic to mj . . . and everyone else. eom