General News Michigan: Rape Insurance?

That is disgusting.

 

The director of Southeast Michigan Right to Life and the local paper opinion section's resident bitch had this to say,

"This is something that pro-death people who call themselves 'pro-choice' should support, because it gives women the ability to opt-out of having abortion coverage."

No, you're taking away the coverage from women who now will have to pay more in order to have abortions covered. Then again, this is a watered-down version of other solid-red states who have banned any insurance company from paying for abortions under any circumstances.

 

"And all the money goes to the new wing of our local church, called the 'Gays Must Die' wing."

I mean, seriously. This is a way to make tons of money. The only bright spot is that I can't believe people would buy this.

 

Won't pass.

The affordable care act prevents insurance of any way costing more for women than men. By including this, it drives the cost up for women, which is a violation of the federal law come January.

 

It's so sad to see that state where I was born controlled by these stark, raving mad Republicans. What a bunch of BS. This is reason #566, 978 I will never vote Republican...I mean Rape Insurance...really????????

 

Yay for capitalist medicine!

 

I'm a bit surprised that this wasn't Oklahoma, given that they were trying to pass laws that life begins at conception as a way to ban abortion a few years ago...Actually, a bit surprised that this wasn't one of the southern states.

Hopefully it'll get shot down so hard that the bill explodes when it hits the ground.

 

This is just fucking ridiculous. I can't even put into words how ridiculous it is. Wow...just wow

 

Sounds pretty dumb...rape insurance wth? Interesting though.

 

I live in a Midwestern state, but I don't think my insurance covers abortion at all. (maybe in certain situations though) I know it doesn't cover birth control. If they had optional coverage for either BC or abortion coverage, I'd get fired for getting the coverage. The boss admitted that whatever you do with the insurance, he gets all the info, like whose applied for what. Up until this year it wasn't a concern for me, but when I got birth control I did not apply my health insurance to it, and under the new hippa laws, if you don't turn it into insurance, the Doctor isn't allowed to sent the information to the insurer that you have it, or got a Dr. visit for it. So I'm having to pay for it myself. It's worth it to me to not get pregnant, and if I got pregnant through rape, I could pay for it myself,
but I feel for people who might not be able to afford it.

 

Holy cow, sldanlm. That is just not right. Because if HIPPA laws I would be surprised if the insurance company even disclose what coverage you bought. If it is is not illegal, it is a bullshit thing for your boss to do.

 

I agree completely it's a BS thing to do. They say it's legal, but I don't know, and don't
want to make my job a legal case. It's the reason I haven't come out fully. If they ever do find out and actually fire me, then I'll sue, but for now I'm in the closet to them. They
even said they could technically fire people for what they post on social media.

I do know in the area where I live a teacher for a Catholic school was fired because she was an unwed mother, but I'm not a schoolteacher and don't work directly for a church. She sued, and I think I heard they settled out of court.

 

He's not the owner of the corp., he's just my top supervisor, does what corporate tells him. I'm not sure it's the birth control they're concerned about, so much as people living together without being married. Regardless, they've already said that they're not paying to provide birth control, regardless of the affordable care act. The boss said corporate is planning on joining some others in challenging the new law, and if that doesn't work, dropping the health care coverage entirely and just paying the fine.

 

This is exactly why I'm running for state rep when I get of age.

Son of a bitch.

 

The issue with it being illegal to fire someone for using BC after Jan is that several states like Wyoming for instance are "Right to Work" states, which means the employer can fire you for any, or even no reason at at all. It would be very hard to prove you were fired for BC specifically. Actually this also is a problem if they were to pass ENDA here, because it would be hard to prove you were fired for being gay.

 

My state is a right to work state. The employee manual is very vague on what it consdiers immoral behavior or words.

 

It seems to me that the socially conservative extremists in our government appear to be telling themselves: "If people don't like your policy, you don't need to change. You just need to effectively silence the people."

 

To be fair, most insurance policies don't cover abortion to begin with, so the law mandating an abortion rider might actually be a good thing.