Here we go- Faith Based Healthcare

Dr. Jeff Stieve is the only doctor in Escanaba who will perform tubal ligations or insert IUDs for birth control. He delivers services that, as a matter of faith and theology, the sole hospital in town will not.

Now, OSF Health Care, which operates St. Francis Hospital in Escanaba and four Roman Catholic hospitals in Illinois, has been chosen by the Bush administration to provide a “faith-based” health plan for federal employees.

The Catholic plan — offered next month to Illinois federal workers only — costs less because it will not cover contraception, artificial insemination, sterilization procedures or abortions under any circumstances.

OSF Health can’t offer the same plan to Illinois state workers because Illinois is one of 22 states that require all insurers to cover contraception. (Michigan, which has gone medieval on reproductive health issues, does not.)

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http://www.detnews.com/2004/metro/0410/10/b01-298475.htm

When they start dying off in droves, it will reduce the number of *'s supporters.

warning: gop at work

They cover ED treatments (Viagra) but not contraception, because a big chunk their stock is owned by an order of Catholic nuns. (At least according to someone I know that works there,)

And if you do, you can kiss your own ass goodbye.

which I'd highly recommend for anyone interested in reading whacko * positions on SEVERAL scientific/medical issues, includes a blurb on how women should pray and read the bible to alleviate PMS. If this wasn't so scary, it would be laughable.

Here's a link to it. It really is worth a read. Sorry to get off track, but people need to know about this.

http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:cvm_cq_q6q0J:www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/pdfs/pdf_politics_and_science_rep.pdf+The+Waxman+Report&hl=en

Does that mean that the tests I have to undergo are not going to be covered?

:)

If a woman has the vapors does she need a referral?