Who said anything about free? Nobody is getting anything free. How about you actually get something you pay for?

You pay the health insurance company to keep you healthy. When they deny you the medicine you need, that is a problem.

Seriously, just fucking read this already: Rush Limbaugh-Sandra Fluke controversy

Birth controls doesnt keep people healthy. It keeps people from making a mistake. Vitamins keep me healthy, but I have to pay for those.

The chemicals USED in birth control have been used separately to treat other ailments, but not the BC itself.

rush limpdick is just mad because he got caught pill poppin

Texas is full of crazy people... choosing to have an abortion in cases of accident or rape is an personal option, but then there is choosing to do so far enough down the line where you can see something on a sonogram.


But, i dont believe they should force you to have a sonogram. Fuckers.

OK I get that this was about insurance and not hospitals but for the sake of argument:

If a religious institution wants to play the "hospital game", then there must be a certain level of standards to meet. If not, then they should be treated more like a voodoo clinic or accpuncture shop or chiropractor.

Not all insurance plans cover voodoo and chiropractic care.

She's a lawyer. If she signed on the dotted line for the insurance and the insurance policy clearly stated that she would get no day after pills for those sweaty nights in your arms then I don't see how she really has an argument.

I don't even think the Affordable Care Act (known epithetically to most of you as Obamacare) even requires that insurance pay for birth control.

Stay on topic, AIDS-man.

I can't get over the logic of this bull-dike knowingly signing a contract for health insurance, then a government stepping-in to change the terms of the religious institution. Religous idiots have the right to be as crazy as they want among themselves. If you don't like it, don't sign the contract.

Bingo.

aidsman?




I have no idea why its so hard to simply not agree with terms, dont sign and move on.

Ah, ok, so you are just trolling. Fool me once, shame on you.

Good stuff. You had me for a bit there. :vash:

You want to pay for our health policy? Here is our terms and conditions.

You signed? So you agree that we wont cover EVERYTHING...

K.



Wait, you want us to change the policy you agreed with because the need came up?

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1347313531

Naw dawg, go somewhere else if you dont like it.

the centipad:laugh:

The list of preclusions on a health insurance policy and a smart-phone Cent-i-pad agreement are two very different things.

This is how I see this whole situation.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1347315136

I wouldn't call Sandra Fluke a dyke, given that she has testified before Congress that she enjoys having heterosexual intercourse with sufficient regularity to cause her financial hardship.

As to the rest, I kind of respect her temerity in seizing this opportunity to make a name for herself. Nobody mentioned my name in a speech at the DNC.





There are standards of care, and religious hospitals conform to them.

In the town where I grew up, there were (and still are) two hospitals. Fawcett Hospital is a private hospital which is independent (not owned by a larger corporation.) St. Joseph's hospital is also a private hospital (I believe they are either a charity hospital or a non-profit corp, but I'm not 100% certain), which is part of the Bon Secours Health System, a Catholic organization.

In the lobby of St. Joseph, there is an idol of the blessed Virgin Mary, as well as a great deal of other religious imagery. I think there's also a framed copy of their mission statement, which is "to bring compassion to healthcare and to be good help to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. As a system of caregivers we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness as part of the healing ministry of Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church. "

The two hospitals are literally right across the street from one another.

As a teenager, I was once hospitalized for a couple of days after I threw myself at the street from a bicycle and managed to give myself a pretty serious concussion. I was treated at St. Joseph. To the best of my recollection, they didn't burn incense over me or sacrifice any lambs- it was just pretty standard healthcare. They used modern technology and medications, and I was not given any religious tracts or questioned about my faith.

So, yeah. Your argument is invalid. Here's Sandra Fluke with some pancakes on her head:

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1347318553



EDIT: As concerns a previous thread in which I said "If it has images then I didn't create it," I did create this image myself using Jasc PaintShop Pro, from two separate pictures which I located using images.google.com. I did not take the original photographs, and thus, this image is a derivative work which I consider to be protected as Fair Use, in that I am using the images as a form of satire and political speech.





That's pretty weaksauce, even for you. The idea that a doctor should be required to perform diagnostic imaging prior to performing surgery on a patient might be new and scary to y'all down there in Tejas, but here in the civilized world it's considered to be pretty standard.

The fact that it has to do with performing an abortion is hardly relevant aside from the fact that this makes it easy fodder for politics.

If Sandra Fluke needs an emergency abortion while visiting Texas, I will gladly pay for her ultrasound.

If Georgetown receives any money from the federal government, or any benefits, they must comply with federal discrimination standards.


She felt she was being discriminated against, as a non-catholic. Even though the college may have a "catholic history" (whatever that means), it must comply with federal law if it receives federal money. Even in a ( non-college) catholic school, students must still pass state mandated exams, to prove the school is operating properly, and to receive federal and state aid.


As an atheist (catholic raised), issues like this are one of many which proves the separation between church and state does not fully exist. Tax exempt status for churches? WTF

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

I chose my pics semi carefully, as a lot misrepresent the issue and just talk of her being a slut and wanting free condoms.

So are you sayng that if Walmart added an urgent care and surgery center and decided to only treat evangelical christians with enlarged goiters by using a hack saw and tweezers, they could do it and if you were to complain and wanted laser goiter surgery, tough shit?

See, I keep seeing this. Do you guys not know what actually happened, or do you just not care?

I don't want to ruin this great circlejerk with facts or anything, but...