Archdiocese Pays for Health Plan That Covers Birth Control

[onehandle]

Source: New York Times

As the nation’s leading Roman Catholic bishop, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York has been spearheading the fight against a provision of the new health care law that requires employers, including some that are religiously affiliated, to cover birth control in employee health plans.

But even as Cardinal Dolan insists that requiring some religiously affiliated employers to pay for contraception services would be an unprecedented, and intolerable, government intrusion on religious liberty, the archdiocese he heads has quietly been paying for such coverage, albeit reluctantly and indirectly, for thousands of its unionized employees for over a decade.

The Archdiocese of New York has previously acknowledged that some local Catholic institutions offer health insurance plans that include contraceptive drugs to comply with state law; now, it is also acknowledging that the archdiocese’s own money is used to pay for a union health plan that covers contraception and even abortion for workers at its affiliated nursing homes and clinics.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/nyregion/new-york-archdiocese-reluctantly-paying-for-birth-control.html

[fitman]

1. If a republican came up with this health care plan

you would hear about none of this nonsense. You would not hear a word from Hobby Lobby and other co's trying to fight the Affordable care Act...because face it...they would not be fighting it..

Newt Gingrich and other republicans wanted an individual mandate as far back as 1989.

Did not see any repukes fighting against medicare part D R/X when Bush passed it through.


BTW: My local Catholic hospital has paid for birth control for it's employees for years. You cannot buy it at the hospital pharmacy but the hospital pay's for it if you go to Walgreens etc. That is how the hospital gets around it "moral compass" and still keeps the employees happy who want BC


All fricken hypocrites...only bitching because a black, muslim, marxist, gay, homosexualist, America hater is President. (did I get them all?)

[Paulie]

3. This health care plan is a republican idea

Right from the Hertiage Foudation and is modeled after RomneyCare with a few extra benefits which help people.

They are complaining because Obama is not white. Obama says the sky looks blue and the republican asshats will say its anything else.

[Bluenorthwest]

2. So do you think choice should be denied to women, or what? Do you agree with Dolan?

Stephen Colbert does, and we don't watch him any more. Are you anti choice?

[annabanana]

7. I find this surprising re: Colbert

I have not gotten the sense that he is dogmatic in the least...
Do you have a link?

[eggplant]

9. link, please, or it didn't happen. n/t

[LiberalFighter]

10. Do you understand what type of show he has?

Or are you like Sheldon Cooper?

[CBHagman]

4. Bumping.

Similar laws have already been effect in various parts of the country for years.

[indivisibleman]

5. Furthermore

Flex spending accounts, which are a Republican idea, cover birth control and abortion services.

[MADem]

6. It's like a restaurant--you have a menu. If you don't want the pork, or the oysters, don't order

those dishes and they won't show up on your plate.

If you don't want the birth control, don't ask the doctor to prescribe it.

The entire country is not Roman Catholic, and these folks just have to deal with that.

[Bette Noir]

8. Insurers WANT to cover birth control.

Always have; always will. A handful of pills is cheaper than maternity care, followed by labor, delivery, and neonatal care.

It's just arithmetic.

What's a violation of freedom is an employer who thinks he has the right to control every aspect of an employee's life, including when and whether she has children. Ain't none of his G-D business.

[LiberalFighter]

11. If contraception coverage is not included I would think

insurers would have higher premiums for that type of policy.