And Here Come the Hobby Lobby-Inspired Cases

[John Galt]

[Ben Huh]

For-profit companies will get the same exemption that non-profits were given over a year ago. The government will reimburse the insurer and/or an outsourced third party for supplying the contraceptives that the religiously affiliated company did not want to cover. It's such a win-win situation that I literally have no clue why people are bitching. Forget that it involves religion and think of the base facts; It grants the religious businesses an out to not provide the drugs they choose not to and it ensures that those drugs are then provided by another party that will be reimbursed by the fed, meaning these women will still get access to all 20 contraceptives mandated in the ACA. Libs need to see a victory when it's there.

[uebermann]

[John Galt]

[The Dharma Bum]

words have specific meanings, in other words

[John Galt]

yes words have meanings. on september 26, 1983, the world almost ended. crap soviet technology erroneously reported that the americans had fired icbms at mother russia. thankfully there was someone with some brains that realized that the US first strike would be more than 5 missiles. the world almost ended that day, and here we are: nothing happened

[uebermann]

[eynon81]

[The Dharma Bum]

an appeal to authority doesn't actually provide much more than an outline of historical precedence. It's just one step of the process of reasoning toward a conclusion.

Humans tend to think heuristically so an appeal to authority is an attractive shortcut but it's not a substitute for actually reasoning something out for one's self.

[John Galt]