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Wish I were making this up, but here goes:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/06/19/3450957/congressman-maternity-coverage-hearing/
Congressman Demands Pregnant Woman Explain Why Obamacare Includes Maternity Coverage
BY TARA CULP-RESSLER JUNE 19, 2014 AT 1:18 PM UPDATED: JUNE 19, 2014 AT 2:35 PM
A lawmaker from North Carolina spent several minutes badgering a pregnant doctor about why Obamacare requires plans to cover maternity services, telling her its a service that people like him will never use, during a House committee hearing this week.
Dr. Mandy Cohen, who works for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and is due to give birth in about three weeks, appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday to testify about Obamacares impact on the insurance market. The hearing was entitled Poised To Profit: How Obamacare helps insurance companies even if it fails patients, so its a safe assumption that Cohen was up before a tough crowd.
During Cohens testimony, Rep. Mark Meadows (R) demanded to know why Americans are forced to buy coverage for services that dont apply to them. He pointed out that he and his wife are in their 50s and dont plan on using maternity coverage anytime soon. The doctor attempted to explain that maternity care is one of the ten essential health benefits that Obamacare requires new plans to include, but Meadows wasnt convinced:
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liberal N proud
(60,351 posts)Now they don't want to cover the side effect of not using birth control.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And I can't believe there is a statistically significant portion of the populace that would derive any benefit at all from that.
What. A. Meathead.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)Maybe that should be excluded from coverage, too, since this doesn't effect women. I'm an older woman and childless -- should I have to pay insurance for others' kids? I mean, the list is endless. We all pay so that all may benefit. That's what it's all about.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)instead of hatched or slithered out from under a rock, thank the maternity care your mother received. If you did hatch or slither out from under a rock, feel free to slither right back under it and shut up.
MADem
(135,425 posts)EVERYONE gets here as a consequence of pregnancy.
Or maybe he WAS hatched...the idiot.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)It would take a more evolved lifeform to hatch.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)on the big screen.....
MADem
(135,425 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)benefited from maternity care.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)lumpy
(13,704 posts)God I'm glad I live in the state I live in.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Warpy
(111,417 posts)Cover the product? Hell no, brats are our punishment--the bible says so--and we should deliver in filth, all by ourselves.
Take it all the way, few 20 year olds have heart attacks, gallstones, or any of the other problems associated with age. His coverage for those and other conditions should be yanked just for that reason.
They aren't growing them any smarter since I left NC. I didn't think they would, it's why I left.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)can ask why nuts injury is covered by Obamacare, but women have to pay for that?
MiniMe
(21,722 posts)I have never had a fire in my house, but I sure as hell am insured against fire. And apparently the troglodyte has never heard of "change of life" babies. You can indeed have a baby at that age, though it is unlikely, it happens.
blogslut
(38,021 posts)...hateful dumbass.
Bad Thoughts
(2,538 posts)... there is a man becoming a father. I figure the health costs balance out.
OTOH, there is no coverage from dickhead congressmen.
pnwmom
(109,021 posts)including genetic conditions, including possessing XX chromosomes: which makes one susceptible to foreign bodies growing inside an organ.
There is nothing about pregnancy that makes it an exceptional medical condition.
Hekate
(90,978 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)IronLionZion
(45,615 posts)I tell them how its astonishing how many young male Repubs know for sure they will never have a girlfriend or wife or any daughters and must die alone. Then I tell them maternity coverage isn't used by many gay couples. They usually start sputtering and get pissed off and call me a socialist. They get really mad when I remind them that Dems have been getting more votes from women.