Obamacare makes it easy to find out what the Federal government is supporting through financial rewards and what it’s punishing through the withholding of financial rewards or by taxing or by penalizing with money. But have you thought about what your support or criticism of Obamacare communicates about you?
Because there is so much verbiage regarding which party supports women and which doesn’t, it’s important to understand that women consumers should choose whether they shape policy or whether policy will shape them. For female Obamacare supporters, a profile is emerging, and it’s not necessarily a positive one.
As Obamacare unfolds, Who is the Obamacare Woman and what does she support? It may surprise you.
Let’s start with contraception. The Obamacare woman is now entitled to have her qualified health insurance plan pay for her contraception INCLUDING “sterilization procedures,” WITHOUT being charged a copayment or coinsurance. Vasectomies, male sterilization are NOT covered. Therefore, the more complicated procedure of female sterilization is supported by Obamacare while discouraging male sterilization.
So much for any argument that your committed male partner should take care of sterilization by obtaining a vasectomy based on the well-known fact that the procedure for men is less complicated and less susceptible to complications because under Obamacare yours is free, theirs is not. THE OBAMACARE WOMAN SUPPORTS STERILIZATION OF WOMEN OVER MEN IN SPITE OF THE INCREASED RISK TO HEALTH FOR WOMEN FROM SUCH PROCEDURES BY MAKING FEMALE STERILIZATION FREE AND CHARGING FOR MALE STERILIZATION. How is that progress?
Let’s go to women who are married and believe that women today have a choice in staying home with their children or working. Under the employer premium contribution limits of Obamacare, premiums charged to the employee ONLY cannot exceed 9.5 percent of income. Dependent coverage has NO limitation. There have already been cases where dependent coverage went through the roof making head of household males unable to purchase insurance for their dependents.
Therefore, THE OBAMACARE WOMAN DISCOURAGES WOMEN’S CHOICE TO STAY AT HOME WITH THEIR CHILDREN BY MAKING HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUM PAYMENTS FOR THEM AND THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH THEIR HUSBANDS AN AMOUNT WITHOUT LIMITS. How is that progress?
The Obamacare woman supports her daughter’s health more than her son’s. A woman’s grown female child can get all sorts of free exams but there is not even a provision for a free checkup for her grown son. Therefore, THE OBAMACARE WOMAN SUPPORTS CHECKUPS FOR HER DAUGHTER BUT NOT HER SON. How is that progress?
The Obamacare woman does not concern herself with domestic violence perpetrated against men though 15 percent of the victims of domestic violence are male. Under Obamacare females not males can obtain free screening and counseling for interpersonal and domestic violence. THE OBAMACARE WOMAN SUPPORTS IGNORING THE ISSUE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST MEN. How is that progress?
The Obamacare woman supports penalizing smokers of cigarettes with higher premium payments but feels no such concern about marijuana smokers. Whether the mother of teenagers or a marijuana smoker herself, she supports Obamacare that prohibits charging more in premiums to smokers of anything but tobacco. OBAMACARE MOTHERS SUPPORT PENALIZING BAD CHOICES BY CHARGING MORE BUT ONLY FOR THOSE WHO CHOOSE SMOKING TOBACCO RATHER THAN MARIJUANA OR ANY OTHER SUBSTANCE.
This is the law, and if you’re a woman who is “happy” with it, this is what you support. For those addressing Obamacare, in addition to its other issues such as cost, the issue of what we’re really supporting through the law will come to light as it is experienced in our lives.
