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Originally Posted by Riot
No, we have a nation of self-identified moral zealots trying to force their personal sexual "morality" down the throats of every other American.
Birth control pills are a prescribed medication just like antibiotics or steroids. Of course preventive medication should be covered by insurance as preventive health care if a doctor prescribes them within the privacy of the doctor-patient relationship. For some to make the government step into the doctors office, examine a patient's motives, and take that right away is undemocratic theocratic zealotry on the part of a few.
People have individual rights, and the freedom from having others opinions, especially religious, forced upon us is the cornerstone of this democracy.
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It is not an overly moralistic statement to say that your own elective behavior should not be subsidized.
As I pointed out a couple of times - I do agree that when that medication is prescribed as treatment for other conditions it should be covered.
You can't have it both ways. You will not have much in the form of individual rights if you want everything managed and subsidized by government. Like it or not, an inescapable consequence of capitalism is "he who pays the bills dictates the rules." You can only preserve your individual rights by acting - uhh -- as an individual. An individual who is as independent as possible of the government. Otherwise, you will eventually become a serf, or ward of the state, subject to all the rules and control that the state wishes to exert on your life.
And the mechanism you cite is backwards. It is not the people forcing their will upon women like Ms. Fluke. It is Ms Fluke trying to force her will upon the rest of us by demanding a subsidy to her lifestyle.