COMMUNISM BY INSURANCE MANDATE
By Ann Coulter
AnnCoulter.com
One theory for why Barack Obama pushed the
contraception mandate right now is that it helps
Rick Santorum. Others theorize it's because Obama is
an anti-religious bigot with a left-wing agenda.
Reasonable minds can disagree on this.
But it may end up helping Mitt Romney by reminding
people that the "individual mandate" is the least of
the problems with ObamaCare. (The "individual
mandate" is simply the legal argument for why
ObamaCare is unconstitutional in a country that has
accepted Social Security and Medicare as
constitutional.)
This isn't a Catholic issue or even a religious
issue. Conservatives are falling into the Democrats'
trap by denouncing it as such. It's a freedom issue.
(Or, as Democrats call it, "the F-word.")
If liberals like it, it's subsidized; if they don't,
it's prohibited. And now they can impose their
left-wing authoritarianism on the entire country by
calling their mandates and prohibitions "insurance."
Liberal fundamentalists say: I don't see why
anyone needs to hunt; I don't know why anyone needs
to eat meat; I don't see why anyone needs to bathe
every day; I don't know why anyone minds looking at
urine in a low-flow toilet; I don't know why anyone
needs an incandescent light bulb ...
Screw you, liberals. I don't know why anyone needs
an abortion, free contraception, crap-ass "art" with
photos of vaginas on the Virgin Mary, non-farming
farmers or a $1 million pension for Anthony Weiner.
But I'm forced to subsidize all of that.
And now we're all going to be forced to subsidize
the entire wish list of the Berkeley City Council,
recast as "health insurance."
Insurance is not supposed to be for normal expenses
in the ordinary course of events, such as
multivitamins, house painting or oil changes.
Insurance is for unexpected catastrophes: fires,
accidents, cancer.
The basic idea is to spread the risk of unforeseen
disasters. Filling up your gas tank, for example, is
not an unforeseen disaster (though it's getting to
be under Obama).
So why is birth control covered by insurance? Birth
control pills aren't that expensive -- generics are
about $20 a month -- nor is the need for them a bolt
out of the blue. Why not have health insurance cover
manicures, back massages, carrot cake and nannies?
Liberals huffily ask why it's so important to the
Catholic Church not to pay for insurance plans that
cover birth control, but the better question is: Why
is it so important to liberals to force them to?
(Wait until they have to buy coverage for vibrating
butt-plugs!)
The answer is: They want the government giving
official sanction to birth control and, later,
abortion. That comes next. They want it for same
reason gays want gay marriage -- it's purely
symbolic.
Following Betty Friedan, gender feminists believe
the pill is so central to what we are as a nation
that it must be paid for by all, i.e. by insurance.
The argument for fully subsidized abortions will be:
We don't vote on a basic human right!
Whether or not it's a "right," it's not an area for
"insurance." Abortion is an elective procedure. No
families are going bankrupt because they had to pay
for an abortion -- which costs about as much as a
haircut for John Edwards or Bill Clinton. Can't we
limit the health insurance we are all required by
federal law to purchase to financially ruinous,
actual medical problems?
No, that is not in the cards. Just as liberals have
turned the Constitution into a vehicle for achieving
all the left-wing policies they could never get
Americans to vote for, now they are going to use
"insurance" for the same purpose. Their new method
doesn't even require them to get votes from five
justices on the Supreme Court.
The secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen
Sebelius, will do it all on her own.
Anything close to the beating heart of feminism is
about to become a mandatory part of insurance
coverage: fertility treatments, chemical
sensitivities, a year's leave of absence for fathers
after the birth of a child, attention deficit
disorder, massages, aromatherapy, watching MSNBC,
sex change operations, gender reassignment surgery,
gender re-reassignment surgery.
And then, once every single insurance plan in the
country is required by federal law to cover one
million liberal causes having nothing to do with
medical problems, Democrats will be happy to let us
purchase health insurance across state lines. Sure,
buy your insurance from Utah or Kentucky. Every
insurance plan in the country, by federal law, will
be identical.
The contraception diktat is only the beginning of
the government controlling your life under
ObamaCare. There are approximately 100,000 more
decisions the HHS Secretary will have to make under
ObamaCare that you will not be able to appeal.
The bill should have been called "Kathleen Sebelius'
Dream Journal."
As we have seen, Sebelius is not a go-with-the-flow
kind of secretary. She is a doctrinaire feminist who
thinks it's important to make a statement by
ordering something that has only a tangential
connection to health care but will have the effect
of costing everyone more money.
Are you getting why this isn't a Catholic issue? So
what if some "compromise" is reached that makes the
Catholic bishops happy? They supported ObamaCare to
begin with! They ought to be forced to live with the
consequences of the totalitarian regime they helped
foist on the rest of us.
Maybe they'll get a waiver from the contraception
mandate on religious grounds -- just like unions and
Obama-friendly corporations got waivers on the
grounds that they realized ObamaCare would suck and
they didn't want to be a part of it.
What about the rest of us? You know, the ones who
didn't support ObamaCare? We still have to live
under the thumb of a nutcase gender-feminist with
unlimited authority to ban whatever she doesn't
like, subsidize whatever she does like and call it
"insurance."
If Obama is re-elected this November and ObamaCare
is not repealed, Republicans' only option will be to
make Rick Santorum the head of HHS under the next
Republican president (if we ever have one).
He can prohibit insurance companies from covering
anything related to contraception, AIDS and
substance abuse, and mandate that insurance plans
pay subsidies to stay-at-home mothers, tuition for
home-schooled kids and cover the purchase of his
book, "It Takes a Family."
Those particular lifestyle choices have as much to
do with "insurance" as contraceptives do.
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