Trump, religion, Obamacare, and the Supreme Court

[Jayhawker Soule]

See:

Supreme Court sides with Trump, allowing employers with religious objections to opt out of Obamacare birth control requirement​

This is ugly.

 

[Altfish]

Grief, the US is so backward

 

[Brickjectivity]

See:

Supreme Court sides with Trump, allowing employers with religious objections to opt out of Obamacare birth control requirement​

This is ugly.

U.S. Supreme Court | Reuters.com <-- recent supreme court rulings

Thursday it rules about Trump's financial privacy.. The House of Representatives is trying to get a look at his records, and President doesn't want them to.

 

[Daemon Sophic]

Once again, GOP ram-rodding theocrasy into the personal lives of US citizens.
Rights? Freedom? Liberty? Ha!! What a farce. Do what your masters tell you. Stop questioning the GOP’s edicts!


Unified, single payer healthcare. Let us join human civilization, and leave these small-minded fascists behind. Please.

 

[exchemist]

See:

Supreme Court sides with Trump, allowing employers with religious objections to opt out of Obamacare birth control requirement​

This is ugly.

The root cause of this seems to me to be having health provision tied to employment. That, I think, is the real scandal in the modern USA.

 

[sun rise]

It's important to note two key points. One is that it was 7 to 2. The second point and the critical one is this which means that President Biden can reverse that exemption:

“We hold today that the Departments had the statutory authority to craft that exemption,

 

[Quintessence]

The root cause of this seems to me to be having health provision tied to employment. That, I think, is the real scandal in the modern USA.

Yup, pretty much.

The only reason I have a problem with the ruling is because health care is bound up with employment. In a country where that is the case, it should be illegal for any employer to prohibit some particular sort of health care, regardless of what it is, for any reason. However, what we really need is for health care not to be bound up with employment in the first place.

 

[Mindmaster]

See:

Supreme Court sides with Trump, allowing employers with religious objections to opt out of Obamacare birth control requirement​

This is ugly.

Or quite irrelevant...

These are free for the asking at various youth centers, health clinics, and other social service facilities. But, I would find these objections quite rare in reality. It seems most of corporate America is woke. I'm against abortion because it's ghastly, but b/c and condoms prevent life from happening and I'm OK with that. (Nothing is killed.)