Back on August 11, 2011 the Wall Street Journal published a letter from AAPS Board Member Richard Amerling, MD, “Where Will Pricey New Mandates End?”
The federal government’s announcement that it will require new health-insurance plans to offer contraceptive services without charging a co-payment (“Law Eases Availability of Birth Control,” U.S. News, Aug. 2) should be chilling to all freedom-loving Americans. It is a vivid reminder of the dictatorial powers given the Department of Health and Human Services by ObamaCare. Can anyone believe that private insurance companies will remain private, or solvent, under this law? Can anyone believe that such mandates will save money? It is also now clear that the administration will use this new lever to implement social policy. With the stroke of a pen, taxpayers will now be directly subsidizing Planned Parenthood and others providing “contraceptive services.”
Richard Amerling, M.D., AAPS
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On January 20, 2012 HHS finalized these new mandates and the WSJ published a new opinion piece on February 8, 2012 “ObamaCare’s Great Awakening
HHS tells religious believers to go to hell. The public notices.
The political furor over President Obama’s birth-control mandate continues to grow, even among those for whom contraception poses no moral qualms, and one needn’t be a theologian to understand why. The country is being exposed to the raw political control that is the core of the Obama health-care plan, and Americans are seeing clearly for the first time how this will violate pluralism and liberty.
