ScreamingEagle
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Businesses must now provide FREE products.....the Obama administration is giving a whole new meaning to the concept of a “command economy".......what'll be next....?
The proposed “accomodation” [re the contraceptive mandate] shifts the obligation from employers to their insurance providers, who must cover those products and services “free” — that is, without charge to the covered employees or in the costs of the plan to the employer.
Thus we now learn that the highly controversial “individual mandate” at the heart of Obamacare to buy a commercial product is not alone. It has now been joined by what may the first corporate mandate to give away a product for free in American history. “There is simply no precedent for the government ordering private companies to offer a product for free,” as the Wall Street Journal noted today in an editorial.
If this “accommodation” stands, we are likely to see many more mandates, both corporate and individual. Why stop with the insurance companies? Why not, for starters, require the pharmaceutical companies to provide pills free of charge? Why not require doctors to provide free birth control-related treatment? Why not, for that matter, require home builders to provide free homes to the homeless?
Mandates Today, Mandates Tomorrow, Mandates…
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