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WED FEB 08, 2012 AT 10:58 PM PST
Contraception "controversy," solved
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Fine: forego federal funding.
That is all.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/09/1063067/-Contraception-controversy-solved?via=siderec
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Churches pay your fair share. Start paying taxes.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)That's the precise solution that occurred independently to my wife & me.
I hope those idiots realize that the majority of practicing catholics support birth control, so their intransigence is cutting the legs out from under their own base of support.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Hospitals don't build themselves overnight.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)If the Catholic authorities just said "we're withdrawing all healthcare; here's what we used to spend, go and try to fund your own healthcare with that, and blame the government for changing the rules" could the workers effectively resist? Because I think the cardinals are quite capable of using their employees' health as pawns in this political argument. If they can change the benefits, they may well. It's not just a question of "the Catholic authorities will inevitably have to either pay more because of the loss of federal funding, or pay for contraceptive coverage".
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)The requirement is a minimum package of health services that all employers must offer as part of any health insurance package they offer, not relted to federal funding.