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The Hobby Lobby case is about religious freedom,
I didn’t know the Hobby Lobby was a church. If it is there are already exceptions in the law for Churches.
The Hobby Lobby from what I understand is a privately owned corporate entity refusing to provide an indirect (they buy insurance which includes, by mandate, birth control) Government mandate that it says offends it's (the owners) personal religious beliefs. I don’t buy it because when one takes on the cloak of a corporation for ones business, one separates ones personal assets from ones corporate assets, this in common terms is called the corporate veil. You can do allsorts of terrible things behind the corporate veil and the owner's (who in this case claim personal religious freedom) personal assets, under ordinary circumstances, can’t be touched. If the stockholders who are the owners and elect the directors of a corporate entity have this sort of *personal* protection why should a corporation have the right to trump a government mandate based on their stockholders *personal* religious beliefs?
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Interesting comment by Call it Crazy in this thread:
http://patrick.net/?p=1241686
Here is an example of a plan you can find on Covered California, and what you would see when you click on "Plan Benefits":
This one says "Silver Plan", but if you chose a Bronze plan, it would say "Bronze Plan", and if you chose a Gold plan, it would say, "Gold Plan".
Now, what is the VERY FIRST THING in the list of benefits?
That's right, it's the DEDUCTIBLE. And it's even in blue so that it stands out.
So, how could it be possible for a person to sign up for insurance, and then, as Call it Crazy believes, be "surprised" that it has a deductible? Are people that stupid? I don't think so.
There are some legitimate things to criticize ACA for, but somehow the REAL problems seem to get buried in this heap of complete bullshit that a few of our resident Fox News junkies keep piling on us. How about we stick to the facts and stop making up things that aren't true?