In an interview on CBS Sunday, Cardinal Dolan called the Obama administration’s mandate on contraceptive coverage a “radical intrusion of a government bureaucracy.”
There are several points to be made about the misinformation in this opening paragraph. First of all, the Obama administration did not produce the mandate, congress did, so it is the previous congress's mandate.
Secondly, there is no radical intrusion by the government in this one issue. How much sense would it make to craft a mandate for health insurance and then have no parameters by which to say what is and what is not health coverage? That'd be like the bailout ~$trillion dollar debacle that the government basically just gifted as there was no oversight.
Ensuring that health care companies are required to provide certain things is just common sense. Birth control is an extremely widely used prescription that helps in many more ways than simply preventing pregnancy and it makes sense to make sure people have access to it as it is a medical prescription that has to go through a doctor.
Why would your health insurance, that you're mandated to have now, not cover your medical prescriptions?
He continued, saying, “Our problem is the government is intruding into the life of faith and in the church that they shouldn’t be doing.”
This does not make sense to me. The government mandating that insurance companies (and the companies that provide these insurance packages to their employees) provide medical coverage regardless of preexisting conditions seems to be a larger affront to this idea than birth control.
Jehova's Witnesses don't believe in getting transfusions, does that mean that they should be able to inflict this belief onto their non-JW staff? No. So why is it different for birth control?
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