Supreme Court rules private employers can decline birth control
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#2A great reason to decouple healthcare from employers. Not surprising though.
Re: Supreme Court rules private employers can decline birth control
#3A great reason to decouple healthcare from employers. Not surprising though.
I ended up doing this, after being tired of having to switch providers every six months from working on startups.
Usually the company will let you receive the healthcare amount as part of your salary, which allows you to purchase your own plan. As a single person with no dependants, I can usually find a cheaper plan individually and end up getting a little more pay. I don't know how this is normally, but it's worked for me so far.
I'm clumping this into "yet another reason there should be universal single payer healthcare".
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#4I lost my flagging privileges sometime around Snowden's seat's flight to Cuba, but what's the "hacker" angle here that wouldn't be covered by the metric ton of articles in mainstream sources that will report on this decision?
Isn't this just "news"? Or were there a host of YC startups planning on not covering some forms of birth control for their employees? Seems unlikely.
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#5So I can allow Hep-C vaccines for my straight employees only now?
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#6This sound like companies imposing their religious beliefs on their employees to me.
If they as a company are against it fine however they should still have to pay for it if their employee is OK with it.
Re: Supreme Court rules private employers can decline birth control
#7So I can allow Hep-C vaccines for my straight employees only now?
From the ruling:
This decision concerns only the contraceptive mandate and should not be understood to hold that all insurance-coverage mandates, e.g., for vaccinations or blood transfusions, must necessarily fall if they conflict with an employer’s religious beliefs. Nor does it provide a shield for employers who might cloak illegal discrimination as a religious practice.
Re: Supreme Court rules private employers can decline birth control
#8A great reason to decouple healthcare from employers. Not surprising though.
The decision only applies to corporations where it's owners are indistinguishable from the business itself. Alito (who wrote for the majority) especially emphasizes it has no effect on insurance mandate.
That info is just from the SCOTUSblog live coverage: http://live.scotusblog.com/Event/Live_blog_of_opinions__June...
They'll deliver the details in "In Plain English" soon if you don't want to scroll through.
Re: Supreme Court rules private employers can decline birth control
#9I lost my flagging privileges sometime around Snowden's seat's flight to Cuba, but what's the "hacker" angle here that wouldn't be covered by the metric ton of articles in mainstream sources that will report on this decision? Isn't this just "news"? Or were there a host of YC startups planning on not covering some forms of birth control for their employees? Seems unlikely.
Yeah, this is just politics and news. I try to leave an explanation whenever I flag an article as to why I'm doing it, but you just kind of gave the best explanation possible.
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#10Typical 5-4 conservative activism vote this SCOTUS is known for. We're going to be paying the price for the Bush years for a long time now. I mean, we're not even talking paying for abortion here, merely birth control, which if you cared about lowering the amount of abortions.
How long until VD treatments, HPV vaccines, etc lawsuits get to this court for moral/religious reasons? These religious activists have only been encouraged of late with a SCOTUS not having issues in what sane countries would call theocracy. This is on top of state legislatures running in legislation to limit access to abortion clinics. I guess the message here is that the state and business can and should tell us to have children against our will.
This SCOTUS is an embarrassment, almost every time history has given them an opportunity to do something modern they just seem to slide into the GOP-style politics that defines the 5 conservative-leaning judges. We're regressing and its concerning.
Hopefully, this will be a lesson to the electorate on how important it is to vote, especially getting young people to vote in presidential elections. The guys who are retired if not dead that put in a long gone POTUS still have their views forced upon the electorate via lifelong SCOTUS appointments.