Politics Obamacare

So you want states to loosen the standards for NPs? And at the same time, give them more responsibility traditionally limited to doctors? Or maybe I'm missing something here.

Sounds like the Republicans in Congress...with no comprehensive alternative plan. Allowing insurance across states lines (which, btw, the ACA does with state compacts) is hardly a comprehensive solution.

 

There's a plan, check the GOP home page for a link. Well here's a link-

Repeal and Replace the Job-Destroying Health Care Law - A Pledge to America - GOP.gov

It has five points. None are very specific really other then the last one which is "get rid of all federally funded abortions." So if you're a woman and an abortion would save your life then fuck off and die. Of course once the baby's born the GOP will no interest in it what so ever. Life is scared until it's born then it should get a job.

 

If there was any compasion at all in the pro abortion crowd, the clinics would perform the procedure for free in that case. however, it's not about caring or compasion, federaly funded abortions are about a sacrement to socialized healthcare.

but i know how trendy and argument ending it is to say fuck off and die everytime somebody doesn't want to be forced to pay for someone elses care.

 

The Hyde Amendment already prohibits federal funded abortions under Medicaid except in the case of rape, incest, life of the mother.

What the Republicans propose is to allow family planning clinics, any organization that receives federal funding and even group health plans to exclude abortion coverage, even though no federal funds would be used....or worse as they voted to defund Title X entirely, eliminating all federal funding for family planning services, with the exception of abstinence education.

They also want to allow clinics and health plans to even exclude contraception coverage for reasons of "conscience" thus not allowing abortions even with private fund OR providing services to limit unwanted pregnancies.

Do you think opposing both abortions and comprehensive family planning is good public policy?

 

Sure

The GOP wants women to be forced to carry babies they don't want, can't afford and possible were raped to conceive. Many right wingers want the mother to carry the baby even if their life and the life of the baby is at serious risk.

Yeap, with the GOP it's all about getting government out of peoples personal lives.

 

Republican Congressman Mike Kelly yesterday equated birth-control mandate with Pearl Harbor and 9/11

Perhaps our conservative colleagues can explain how acts of war and terrorism have anything to do with easier access to contraception.

 

I don't believe we need family planning organizations. families were a lot better off before we had these things. divorce rates and out of wedlock pregnancies are through the roof right now. all these organizations do is help people deal with reckless lifestyle choices.
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i dont think the military is a good example. im not talking about the abortion clinics not getting paid. i'm talking about the rare cases of rape and life threatening pregnancy abortions like tully mars was talking about. they are the exception not the rule. it's not like the clinics wouldn't be getting paid all together if they were to do these specific cases for free. if there was any 'compassion' like he said, the clinics would gladly do these cases for free, but of course they wont.

 

Access to contraception and reproductive health services through employer sponsored health plan prevents millions of unwanted pregnancies a year and, not primarily in teenage girls, but in responsible adults. And, as a result prevents hundreds of thousands of abortions a year. You don't have the right to legislate your morality regarding sex outside of marriage.

And family planning organizations that primarily serve low income women, federal funding that has been eliminated by the Republicans in Congress on their anti-abortion crusade (even though federal funding cannot be used for abortions, with a few exceptions), not only prevents unwanted pregnancies (and the consequence of abortion) but prevents cervical cancer, breast cancer, STDs, HIV, etc. through early screening not otherwise available.

 

Teen pregnancy and abortion rates were at their highest in the 80s and peeked in 1988.



I blame Reagan

 

What exactly do you mean by 'better off'? If there some objective metric your using to make this assessment and if so would you please share it?

I'm also having some trouble connecting the dots on what divorce rates have to do with family planning at all.

 

I'm gonna guess when you plan a family you don't plan on getting divorced and you leave the number children in the family for God to figure out.

 

Under new medical loss ratio provisions of the ACA, insurance companies must spend at least 85 percent of insurance premiums in large employer group plans directly on patient care and quality improvement (80 percent for small employers and individual plans). It went into effect last year. Insurance companies are required to report annually and if they exceed that cap, they must reimburse consumers for the difference by Aug. 1 of each year.

But the checks go to the employer and the employer can either rebate a share to employees or applied as a discount on future premiums. Over $1 billion was paid out this year (for last year's overcharges).
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"Family values" conservatives (and I guess some libertarians) are quick to blame "feminism, gay rights, pornography, and other vile intruders (and those 60s hippies and their sex, drugs and rock&roll) for the moral decline of the traditional family." (rick santorum)

 

I just had some friends use my house for a wedding last week. Actually quite an event, catered, DJ, flowers everywhere... I even cleaned the pool for it. I told the groom in my best Spanish "it's not the cost of the wedding that gets you... it's the divorce that will break you." He told me "I'm Catholic so no divorce... I'll just get a girlfriend in a few years." I was joking... pretty sure he wasn't.

 

So if I currently have healthcare through my employer and pay high premiums can I cancel it and get obamacare? I really don't understand it.