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But
Won’t People Die?
By Erick Erickson
July 3rd, 2013
They
told us we had to do it. We
had to rush through Obamacare; passing it to find out what was in it,
as Nancy
Pelosi told us. We had to do it and it could not wait because lives
were
depending on it. We needed to save lives and we needed to provide women
access
to birth control.
Suddenly,
yesterday, the Obama
Administration announced it would deny women access to contraception
paid for
by their employer after campaigning throughout 2012 on just how
important
paying for abortions and birth control under employer provided plans
would be.
If
you aren’t following along,
Barack Obama has decided to delay implementation of the employer
mandate — the
mandate that employers must provide health insurance to employees —
until after
the 2014 election cycle. The law that had to be passed quickly to save
lives
can now be delayed. So how many people will die? That was their
rhetoric. Lives
depended on Obamacare.
Contraception
is now considered an
“essential benefit” under Obamacare that employers must provide, but
now it’s
only going to be essential to those who already have employer health
insurance.
The rest of the women? Sorry.
Back
on May 24, 2013, Ezra Klein
opined that employers would not stop dropping employees when the
employer
mandate went into effect.
Now
he says repeal it. We’re going
to hear this a lot. Barack Obama suddenly does not think he needs a
central
part of his law so it can be scrapped.
What
is ironic here is that the
left has, for months, used the talking point that Republicans are
causing
problems by obstructing the implementation of Obamacare. Now, suddenly,
the
President is going to delay implementation of one part of Obamacare...
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