The New York Times 03/02/12 Erik Eckholm
“Poll Finds Divisions Over Requiring Coverage”
The close divide in a Senate vote Thursday over whether employers can refuse insurance coverage for contraception mirrors a sharp partisan divide among the public, according to a national poll and interviews with women around the country.
Over all, 63 percent of Americans said they supported the new federal requirement that private health insurance plans cover the cost of birth control, according to the survey of 1,519 Americans, conducted from Feb. 13 to Feb. 19 for the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
Jennifer Meyer, 27, of Sugar Creek, Mo., said in an interview that the current controversy over birth control coverage was “a way for employers to get out of footing the bill by saying they don’t agree with it.” She called herself an independent, but said she was leaning toward Democrats as the “lesser of two evils.”
Common Sense Review
There are so many problems with the information given here….
First, this is a ridiculous argument. Employers already decide what kind of insurance and what that insurance will cover, so why is contraception now being forced on the masses? With a greater “Baby Boomer” population, I see a limited income and a group of people who don’t need contraception….
Contraception doesn’t prevent illness, how about covering cancer treatment, heart treatment? Wouldn’t these traumas be better to address?
Second, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation surveyed 1,519 people over 6 days and found that 63% of the people surveyed support the Fed Govt requirement for Health Ins. to cover Birth Control…
So 956 people (or .0003% of the population) decide for the 307 million people that private Health Ins. should cover birth control…. Where did Kaiser Foundation get their list of people to be surveyed? The DNC, Media Matter…
Third, Should we trust the word of an organization where Charlie Gibson (ABC New Anchor) and Cokie Roberts (ABC Senior News Analysis, NPR reporter) are on the board of directors? As well as the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation stated purpose is to:
· We are a major producer of policy analysis and research ourselves…Yes it says “ourselves”
· We are a “go to” clearinghouse of news and information for the health policy community
· Kaiser develops and helps run large-scale public health information campaigns in the US and around the world.
Finally, if the American’s are forced to pay more for health insurance to cover birth control, does Planned Parenthood and other organizations still get federal funding? When contraception is condoms, Female condoms, cervical caps, diaphragms, “The Pill”, Sterilization, tubal ligation, vasectomy and “the morning-after” pill, then there is no need for Planned Parenthood and programs that giving kids condoms, and that mean we can eliminate funding for those programs…
Ironically, Governmental Eugenics will eliminate Planned Parenthood which was created by the Queen of Eugenics…
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