Employer-based health insurance.

in #health6 years ago

I'd be fine with getting rid of all the mandates and subsidies for employer-based health insurance, including the ones that cause health insurance to be employer-based in the first place.

I'm not wild about the idea of creating a special carve-out just for birth control (from the long list of many other mandates), and especially for those religions that object to it. If a Catholic employer doesn't have to cover birth control, then a JW employer shouldn't have to cover blood transfusions, a secular-humanist employer shouldn't have to cover infant circumcisions, a Shinto employer shouldn't have to cover organ transplants, etc.

If that sounds like it's starting to get pretty absurd: yeah, it is, and that's part of why the system of employer-based health insurance is so stupid. There's no good reason your employer should be involved in these decisions at all, including picking which health insurance plan you can have.

But I can't cheer a policy that gives some religious objectors exemptions, but denies them to other similarly-situated religious objectors, based on nothing more than which faith has more political pull, more voters, and thus more influence over politicians. It's uncomfortably close to the government playing favorites between different religions.

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