Obamacare makes single men pay for maternity coverage, but not 25 year old women! November 1, 2013

Posted by Tantumblogo in asshatery

Yes, you read that right. Under the rules of Obamacare, pretty much everyone, except those most likely to use it, are required to pay for maternity coverage under Obamacare. 82 year old widows? Yep, gotta pay for it. 33 year old single males? Gotta pay for it. 21 year old woman – nope, “free!” In other words, all others, including faithful Catholics, now get to subsidize the “free” contraception that was such a huge selling point for Obamacare among his voters, and I would imagine abortions, too (I have not confirmed this), while those most likely to use these services don’t have to pay a dime. Maternity care is one of the numerous “mandated services” that is forcing most people’s insurance plans to be cancelled, making them sign up for the extremely expensive (almost all premiums are increasing 50-300%, to pay for all these extra services AND the huge risk pool added through Obamacare’s diktat that pre-existing conditions be covered).

Reward your friends, punish your enemies – or even innocent bystanders who aren’t “friendly” enough. No wonder the demonrats made abortion and contraception the central pillars of their 2012 presidential election campaign:

One of the things that make a health plan not a health plan under ObamaCare is if it doesn’t include coverage for maternity care. That’s what the president means when he asserts that insurance companies “can’t use . . . the fact that you’re a woman to charge you more.” If you’re a man buying insurance only for yourself, or for yourself and your sons, you have to buy maternity coverage so the ladies can have a price break. …..it’s not only men who are forced to buy maternity coverage they are physically incapable of using. So are women in the stage of life between childbearing age and Medicare eligibility. Second, under-30s are exempt. That’s right, the geniuses who wrote ObamaCare are forcing everyone to buy maternity care except the age cohort that includes women at peak fertility.

“If you like your coverage, you can keep your coverage” will go down as one of the biggest political lies ever foisted on the American people. Bring on the collapse……

Welcome to socialism. I expect we’ll have a national single-payer (and incredibly broken) health care system within 5-10 years, especially since the stupid party can’t seem to do anything but roll over.

With respect to the Church, the US bishops did not oppose Obamacare wholeheartedly. One of their cherished goals is health care for all, preferably paid for by somebody else, maybe Martians.

There were strong opponents of Obamacare in the US episcopate – Bishops Naumann and Finn were particularly stalwart in opposition. But overall, the bishops were lukewarm in their approach to Obamacare, while the Catholic bureaucracy was lobbying extremely heavily in favor of it (and more, they wanted to go straight to a socialist single payer system).

The effect was such that so-called pro-life Katholyc dems like Bart Stupak played – once again! – the decisive role in inflicting this disaster upon the unwilling people of the United States. Obamacare has never enjoyed majority support. But even though those pro-life dems almost all lost their jobs, Obamacare has kept rolling along. Wait until the employer mandate kicks in next year – about a year from now, millions more Americans, that near-majority who get their health care coverage through employment at large corporations, start getting their cancellation letters. I fully expect to get one. My private employer will probably dump coverage next year. Then there will be hell to pay, but it will be too late. Never in the history of this nation has a major social welfare program been rolled back and eliminated.

Obamacare passed by such a narrow margin, even though the demonrats owned both Houses of Congress and the presidency, had the bishops truly mounted a full court press in opposition, I don’t think it would have made it. But there are still many, many bishops in this country who support socialist wealth transfer schemes as one of the greatest possible “goods.” That was the reason for the half-hearted opposition, even with Obamacare funding abortion and contraception.

I know that’s all sort of old news, but people have a tendency to forget. We need to remember.