Democrats Fast-Track Bill To Override Hobby Lobby Decision

[Lakhota]

Senate Democrats are expediting legislation that would override the Supreme Court's decision in the Hobby Lobby case and compel for-profit employers to cover the full range of contraception for their employees, as required by the Affordable Care Act.

The bill, which is co-authored by Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.), would ban for-profit companies from refusing to cover any federally guaranteed health benefits for religious reasons, including all 20 forms of contraception detailed in the Affordable Care Act. It would preserve the contraception mandate's current exemption for churches and accommodation for non-profit religious organizations, such as certain hospitals and schools.

A Senate aide told HuffPost that the bill will be introduced as soon as Tuesday night and go directly to the Senate floor as early as next week, without being considered in committee.

"The U.S. Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision opened the door to unprecedented corporate intrusion into our private lives. Coloradans understand that women should never have to ask their bosses for a permission slip to access common forms of birth control or other critical health services," Udall said in a statement. "My common-sense proposal will keep women's private health decisions out of corporate board rooms, because your boss shouldn't be able to dictate what is best for you and your family."

MORE: Democrats Fast-Track Bill To Override Hobby Lobby Decision

Sounds good. Get it done.

 

[g5000]

"The U.S. Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision opened the door to unprecedented corporate intrusion into our private lives."

I have to say, in the category of Irony, that is truly one of the most mentally deranged things I have ever heard.

Not kidding.

 

[guno]

Senate Democrats are expediting legislation that would override the Supreme Court's decision in the Hobby Lobby case and compel for-profit employers to cover the full range of contraception for their employees, as required by the Affordable Care Act.

The bill, which is co-authored by Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.), would ban for-profit companies from refusing to cover any federally guaranteed health benefits for religious reasons, including all 20 forms of contraception detailed in the Affordable Care Act. It would preserve the contraception mandate's current exemption for churches and accommodation for non-profit religious organizations, such as certain hospitals and schools.

A Senate aide told HuffPost that the bill will be introduced as soon as Tuesday night and go directly to the Senate floor as early as next week, without being considered in committee.

"The U.S. Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision opened the door to unprecedented corporate intrusion into our private lives. Coloradans understand that women should never have to ask their bosses for a permission slip to access common forms of birth control or other critical health services," Udall said in a statement. "My common-sense proposal will keep women's private health decisions out of corporate board rooms, because your boss shouldn't be able to dictate what is best for you and your family."

MORE: Democrats Fast-Track Bill To Override Hobby Lobby Decision

Sounds good. Get it done.

And the right wing will be

 

[g5000]

I am actually shaken by the kind of mentality that would believe such a statement.

 

[Mad Scientist]

The US Government isn't supposed to "fast track" ANYTHING!

It's set up as a deliberative body and is supposed to take it's time on legislation to make sure it's written very carefully as NOT to infringe on the rights of ANY American.

 

[g5000]

"Coloradans understand that women should never have to ask their bosses for a permission slip to access common forms of birth control or other critical health services," Udall said in a statement.

Wow. That's a seven-pounds-of-brain-damage statement right there. It is simply astonishing.

 

[g5000]

The government is forcing one party to buy insurance for another party.

THAT IS AN INTRUSION INTO OUR LIVES, YOU STUPID FUCKS!!!!

 

[LiberalMedia]

A nice sentiment, but unfortunately, the bill will die regardless once the House's Wrongpublican majority gets their grubby fundamentalist paws on it.

The government is forcing one party to buy insurance for another party.

THAT IS AN INTRUSION INTO OUR LIVES, YOU STUPID FUCKS!!!!

Bullshit, prove it.

 

[g5000]

"Gimme, gimme, gimme, and make that guy over there pay for it."

Acceding to this constant demand is how we have now arrived to the point where there are dipshits who actually believe it is okay to force someone else to give them something, and if that someone else resists, they are intruding into the lives of the dipshits.

Incredible. Absolutely incredible.

 

[g5000]

A nice sentiment, but unfortunately, the bill will die regardless once the House's Wrongpublican majority gets their grubby fundamentalist paws on it.

The government is forcing one party to buy insurance for another party.

THAT IS AN INTRUSION INTO OUR LIVES, YOU STUPID FUCKS!!!!

Bullshit, prove it.

Are you so completely unaware of the employer mandate? Really? Have you been living in a cave?

 

[RoadVirus]

Senate Democrats are expediting legislation that would override the Supreme Court's decision in the Hobby Lobby case and compel for-profit employers to cover the full range of contraception for their employees, as required by the Affordable Care Act.

The bill, which is co-authored by Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.), would ban for-profit companies from refusing to cover any federally guaranteed health benefits for religious reasons, including all 20 forms of contraception detailed in the Affordable Care Act. It would preserve the contraception mandate's current exemption for churches and accommodation for non-profit religious organizations, such as certain hospitals and schools.

A Senate aide told HuffPost that the bill will be introduced as soon as Tuesday night and go directly to the Senate floor as early as next week, without being considered in committee.

"The U.S. Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision opened the door to unprecedented corporate intrusion into our private lives. Coloradans understand that women should never have to ask their bosses for a permission slip to access common forms of birth control or other critical health services," Udall said in a statement. "My common-sense proposal will keep women's private health decisions out of corporate board rooms, because your boss shouldn't be able to dictate what is best for you and your family."

MORE: Democrats Fast-Track Bill To Override Hobby Lobby Decision

Sounds good. Get it done.

And the right wing will be

Seems to me that it's the Dumbos who are the ones foaming at the mouth at the moment.

 

[OldUSAFSniper]

Well, I guess another email to my congressman and senators to stop this madness as well.

What a crock!

 

[Pete7469]

The US Government isn't supposed to "fast track" ANYTHING!

It's set up as a deliberative body and is supposed to take it's time on legislation to make sure it's written very carefully as NOT to infringe on the rights of ANY American.

Yeah...

Bed wetters are all sorts of concerned about "rights".

They have the right to have you pay them not to procreate.

Of course I would argue a Sterilization for Liberals Program may be a cost effective means of reducing the welfare rolls, prison population and accidents involving general ignorance and carelessness.

It would increase the country's collective intelligence, allow us to roll back the miles of red tape that hinder industrial production and resource collection, carry weapons without infringement, build on our own property without interference from environazis and regain the freedom to display Judeao/Christian symbolism in public.

Please spay or neuter your liberal family members today!!

Nevermind the neutering....

Liberal males have no balls.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Why is it that the conservatives are against contraception being provided for under healthcare plans, yet are perfectly happy in allowing Viagra?

 

[Ibentoken]

Patty Murray is a joke and so is the bill.

 

[g5000]

DIPSHIT: Force my employer to buy me stuff.

UNCLE SAM: Here you go. I will fine them if they don't buy you this stuff.

EMPLOYER: I should not be forced to buy someone else stuff.

DIPSHIT: He's intruding into my life!!! WAAAAAAH!

 

[LiberalMedia]

A nice sentiment, but unfortunately, the bill will die regardless once the House's Wrongpublican majority gets their grubby fundamentalist paws on it.

The government is forcing one party to buy insurance for another party.

THAT IS AN INTRUSION INTO OUR LIVES, YOU STUPID FUCKS!!!!

Bullshit, prove it.

Are you so completely unaware of the employer mandate? Really? Have you been living in a cave?

I was not referring to the employer mandate portion of your post, but rather the "[the employer mandate] is an intrusion into our lives" claim. I would like you to prove this statement to be correct, or at least pretend to have something to back it up.

 

[Ibentoken]

Why is it that the conservatives are against contraception being provided for under healthcare plans, yet are perfectly happy in allowing Viagra?

You're confused. Conservatives are not against contraception. Hobby Lobby doesn't want to offer the morning after pill that kills the embryo.

 

[g5000]

If you dumb fucks did not want your employer "intruding into your private life", then you numbnuts should have demanded the government not embed employer-sponsored insurance.

Fucking idiots.

You should be pushing for the elimination of this boondoggle. You should be pushing for a system where you buy your own health insurance the same way you buy your auto insurance or home insurance.

Does your employer "intrude into your private lives" when you are buying auto or home insurance? Do you have to go all hyperbolic and claim you "need a permission slip" from your boss when you decide what options of auto or home insurance you want?

See how fucking stupid you sound yet?

 

[g5000]

Why is it that the conservatives are against contraception being provided for under healthcare plans, yet are perfectly happy in allowing Viagra?

Your employer should not be buying your insurance, period.

YOU should be buying your own insurance, you overly dependent stooge. You get a paycheck, you buy your insurance. With or without Viagra. YOUR CHOICE.