SCOTUS Decision On Obamacare

(CNN) -- "The Supreme Court ruled Monday that closely held companies cannot be required to pay to cover some types of contraceptives for their employees,"

COMMENTARYI have more questions then answers as a result of the SCOTUS decision..* How will this affect employees working for businesses held by 'Christian Science' or the ' Jehovah’s Witnesses'? There are also a whole bunch of fundamentalist Christian groups that believe only in 'faith healing'. Who knows how many companies identify themselves with these?

* What's to stop any company what-so-ever from chartering itself as a faith based company? One which then declares it's a disciple of the 'spaghetti monster' allowing it to cherry pick medical benefits for it's employees.

* Does not the constitution dictate that religious beliefs be protected? If so then the SCOTUS decision on one hand protects owners rights under the constitution while at the same time denying those same protections for workers who's beliefs may differ.

* If a woman is medically diagnosed to be at extreme risk or placed in a life threatening condition from a possible future pregnancy (or that of a future fetus) due to a medical condition would she be denied medical coverage? Would coverage be denied on the basis of birth prevention rather then that of a life threatening treatment for a condition for either her or the baby? Not just pregnancy but any condition what-so-ever that wasn't deemed necessary regarding the religious beliefs held by it's owners'.

* This kind of cracks the door open to all kinds of stuff. There are all kinds of screwy beliefs held by religions. Which ones should employees be protected or not protected from if the company they work for is faith based? To name only two some believe it's OK to beat or stone women, others require religious garb. Is the SCOTUS going to decide each on a case to case basis or rule separate on the birth control issue only? If not, why not?

Personally I think all of this could be easily resolved by expanding the current Medicare program to everyone. Then following that enact legislation which would allow employees the opportunity to either participate in their employers plan or be compensated by them for the government run Medicare program. This would create a entirely a voluntary (non mandated) 'national healthcare' program if so chosen by the people who wished to join. This would solve two major problems. What employers choose to offer coverage for while at the same time lowering healthcare costs for both.


Best of all it leaves the SCOTUS justices out of this and their making all these decisions on what we can and cannot have regarding our families healthcare.


I don't know about you, but I have no desire to tell religious people what they should or should not believe in. AND I sure as hell don't want them cramming their views down mine either.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."
Yet isn't that, in effect, what this SCOTUS ruling has just done?

I truly believe the framers not only wanted to protect religion, but us from it as well. Religion and government do not play well together. One need look no further then the current situation in the Middle East or in any other part of the world as far back as history itself for that matter!