Contraception Crap Shoot

One way Obamacare is designed to deal with increasing healthcare costs is preventative care.  This includes physicals, mammograms, and yes contraception.  You know that stuff that keeps you from having an unwanted pregnancy.  Under the new law insurance plans have to cover contraception.  No surprise the Catholic Church is against this and complained extensively in 2012.  So the administration capitulated and now allows churches, charities, non-profits and the like to be exempt.  All they have to do is sign a form exempting them from paying for contraception, and the insurer has to pick up the tab.  But of course this wasn’t enough for a fanatical group of nuns (Little Sisters of the Poor), who now say that even signing the letter is too much for them to bear.  They are suing, saying it violates their religious freedom, and we’ll have to wait and see if the courts take this one up.  The next player of the religious card is the company Hobby Lobby.  They are a for profit organization that will be required to cover their 13,000 employees starting next year.  Unless the Supreme Court rules in their favor, and then they won’t.  You see Hobby Lobby, according to the owner is: “honoring the Lord in all we do by operating the company in a manner consistent with biblical principles”.  Really?  This is the slipperiest slope I’ve ever seen.  If the company becomes exempt why wouldn’t any new company just say they’re doing work for the lord.  ‘Thanks for calling so and so lawn care, keeping your yard green just the way god wanted’.  Great, now I’m tax exempt!  'We're not just a hospital, we're a Catholic Hospital, so we don't want to pay for our employees health care.'  Yeah well I don't want you to get a tax benefit.  If the court rules in their favor - that is, allows corporations to receive the same religious freedoms as individuals - expect everyone to come out of the woodwork; no pun intended.