Friday, November 2, 2012

Federal Judge In Michigan Rules Against Birth Control Benefit in Favor of Business Owner
U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland ruled Wed. Oct. 31 that a Catholic-owned family business in Michigan does not need to comply with the Affordable Care Act's birth control benefit, RH Reality Check reported Nov. 2. The temporary injunction affects the owner of Weingartz Supply Company and his approximately 170 employees, and like a similar ruling from a federal court in Colorado, is limited only to that challenger. In July, U.S. District Judge John Kane temporarily prevented the government from requiring the Catholic owners of Hercules Industries Inc, a private manufacturer of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning equipment, from complying with the birth control benefit as well.
I got this from  http://womensenews.org/breaking-news#.UJQxDKD5UUo.

This is one of the huge issues that is going on in our election. Women's rights is being affected by health care being more and more privatized. Companies don't want to pay for birth control but would they pay for Viagra? This is sexism at it's greatest. Companies do not want to bother with the health problems of women but if a man needs something it isn't but the slightest thought. Mitt Romney wants to totally privatize health care saying the people could take care of their own rights but I think we have seen that those who aren't as well off are never affected in a good manner by being asked to take care of their own problems. Medicaid and Medicare were put into place to aid people who can't help themselves, who can not afford to go out and pay for health care on their own. If health care were privatized I think we would see companies acting like this company, saying they shouldn't have to pay for this or that but really what they don't want to pay for is a woman. I also think there are a few other classes of people who would see a great discrimination by privatization.

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