So you might have heard about the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday to uphold the main provision of the Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare). So did Ryan Gosling.
According to The Huffington Post:
This decision means a lot for women and their co-pay-free access to certain care, including well-women exams, contraception, STI screenings and domestic violence screenings. The Affordable Care Act also makes it illegal for insurance companies to charge women more than men for comparable coverage.
So to celebrate, let’s look at what ‘Hey Girl’ Ryan Gosling has to say about all this, shall we?
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Yeah, more fun except for the people who have to work to pay for your contraception. Unless you think Obama shits birth control.
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@WaitingToShrug@xanga - So first of all this is a system EVERYONE pays into. Similarly to social security, everyone will reap the benefits who pays into it. If you have your own private insurance you are not taxed. The reason this works is because health care becomes more expensive overall if less people have it and rely on emergency room visits as their only source of healthcare.
Second of all, I guess it doesn’t matter that the health care reform will also ensure that children can’t be denied care due to a pre-existing condition, as well as the fact that insurance companies will not be able to drop their clients just because they are seriously sick. It will also help senior citizens pay for their prescription medications that medicare doesn’t cover as well as expand medicaid to more people in need, especially below the poverty level. Insurance companies will also be required to cover ALL preventative medicines free of charge, not just contraception.
So yeah, it’s pretty awful that the quality of care we receive will no longer be based on which insurance we can afford.
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@WaitingToShrug@xanga - no one’s forcing you to work. if it’s really that horrible, quit your job and become a moocher, like you seem to believe everyone who can’t afford health care is.
on the other hand, i work full-time with no insurance and still can’t afford my birth control (even the generic). so there goes your theory.