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Who knew one of the last bastions of paranoid, reactionary religious wingnuttery in corporate America was the discount craft-goods emporium known as Hobby Lobby? The retailer has announced it will stick it to the heathen health care law proponents by refusing to offer employees health insurance that covers emergency contraception. More
Today in my google news feed, I came across an item saying the Obama administration had mandated that all food stores selling refrigerated goods must sell beef, even if the store otherwise only sold vegetarian or vegan foods. What could possibly be the rationale behind that?, I wondered, clicking through to the “story”—which turned out to be a satire intended to demonstrate the unfairness of the administration’s mandate that all health insurance plans cover birth control. But requiring health insurance plans to cover birth control pills is nothing like requiring vegan stores* to sell beef, for two very simple reasons. More
A federal district judge in Virginia ruled today that a major provision of the Obama health care law is unconstitutional. The Washington Post reported that Judge Henry E. Hudson found that the demand for Americans to buy health insurance by 2014 (or be fined) violates the constitution’s “Commerce Clause,” which determines that no one should be forced to involuntarily purchase a commodity in the private market. More
