"Look At Me, I'm In A Trap!!!"---Mitchy "The Turtle" "Our First Priority is Defeat of the President" McConnell

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    Soup McGee http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/02/12/andrew-sullivan-how-obama-set-a-contraception-trap-for-the-right.html

    

    Andrew Sullivan: How Obama Set a Contraception Trap for the Right

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    Conservatives gleefully revived the culture wars. But they're not winning. How Obama set a trap for the right.

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    Soup McGee chuckles. "Look at me, I'm in a trap!" http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/mcconnell-gop-will-push-to-let-any-employer-deny-contraception-coverage.php?ref=fpa

    

    McConnell: GOP Will Fight To Let ANY Employer Deny Contraception Coverage

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    Soup McGee ‎,"""17 (2) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this section
    18 are—
    19 (A) to ensure that health care stakeholders
    20 retain the right to provide, purchase, or enroll
    21 in health coverage that is consistent with their
    22 religious beliefs and moral convictions, without
    23 fear of being penalized or discriminated against
    24 under PPACA; and
    4
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    1 (B) to ensure that no requirement in
    2 PPACA creates new pressures to exclude those
    3 exercising such conscientious objection from
    4 health plans or other programs under PPACA.
    5 (b) RESPECT FOR RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE.—
    6 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 1302(b) of the Pa7
    tient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public
    8 Law 111–148; 42 U.S.C. 18022(b)) is amended by
    9 adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    10 ‘‘(6) RESPECTING RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE
    11 WITH REGARD TO SPECIFIC ITEMS OR SERVICES.—
    12 ‘‘(A) FOR HEALTH PLANS.—A health plan
    13 shall not be considered to have failed to provide
    14 the essential health benefits package described
    15 in subsection (a) (or preventive health services
    16 described in section 2713 of the Public Health
    17 Service Act), to fail to be a qualified health
    18 plan, or to fail to fulfill any other requirement
    19 under this title on the basis that it declines to
    20 provide coverage of specific items or services be21
    cause—
    22 ‘‘(i) providing coverage (or, in the
    23 case of a sponsor of a group health plan,
    24 paying for coverage) of such specific items
    25 or services is contrary to the religious be5
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    1 liefs or moral convictions of the sponsor,
    2 issuer, or other entity offering the plan; or
    3 ‘‘(ii) such coverage (in the case of in4
    dividual coverage) is contrary to the reli5
    gious beliefs or moral convictions of the
    6 purchaser or beneficiary of the coverage.
    7 ‘‘(B) FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS.—
    8 Nothing in this title (or any amendment made
    9 by this title) shall be construed to require an
    10 individual or institutional health care provider,
    11 or authorize a health plan to require a provider,
    12 to provide, participate in, or refer for a specific
    13 item or service contrary to the provider’s reli14
    gious beliefs or moral convictions. Notwith15
    standing any other provision of this title, a
    16 health plan shall not be considered to have
    17 failed to provide timely or other access to items
    18 or services under this title (or any amendment
    19 made by this title) or to fulfill any other re20
    quirement under this title because it has re21
    spected the rights of conscience of such a pro22
    vider pursuant to this paragraph.
    23 ‘‘(C) NONDISCRIMINATION IN EXERCISING
    24 RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE.—No Exchange or
    25 other official or entity acting in a governmental
    6
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    1 capacity in the course of implementing this title
    2 (or any amendment made by this title) shall
    3 discriminate against a health plan, plan spon4
    sor, health care provider, or other person be5
    cause of such plan’s, sponsor’s, provider’s, or
    6 person’s unwillingness to provide coverage of,
    7 participate in, or refer for, specific items or
    8 services pursuant to this paragraph."
    
    AND
    
    "‘‘(ii) INITIATING PARTY.—An action
    7 under this paragraph may be instituted by
    8 the Attorney General of the United States,
    9 or by any person or entity having standing
    10 to complain of a threatened or actual viola11
    tion of this paragraph, including, but not
    12 limited to, any actual or prospective plan
    13 sponsor, issuer, or other entity offering a
    14 plan, any actual or prospective purchaser
    15 or beneficiary of a plan, and any individual
    16 or institutional health care provider.""""""

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