Comment Re:The Elephant in the Room (Score 1) 95
What would an organic RF pulse look like?
Hobby Lobby covers some forms of birth control. Other companies currently litigating against the mandate don't want to cover any form of birth control. For example, Wheaton College or Eden Foods. The ruling simply stated that "closely held" corporations with "sincere religious beliefs" could opt out of providing birth control.
Providing birth control is a treatment, not a medicine. Many medicines and devices can be used in multiple sorts of treatment regimes. I've not seen any evidence that a person who was prescribed (for example) hormone pills chemically identical to BC for the purpose of mitigating cysts could be denied coverage of that treatment.
Not covering BC at all is OK for me really, as would be not covering Viagra or any other sort of lifestyle choice medical interventions. Whether or not to cover those sorts of things being up to the company seems fair.
Actually. Many more than you think? Just in Canada recently a border crossing gone wrong for 4 alleged terrorist resulted in 40 arrests of a group planning acts of terrorism.
First, citation needed, second, has how much to do with discharged devices on airplanes?
As far as birth control as medicine goes, the organization will still object to it because, while it is being used as a medicine, it is still serving its birth control function as well.
I don't see anything that makes me think that's a settled fact, or that it would be covered by this. The wording in the ruling seems very specific. Additionally, birth control is covered by Hobby Lobby.
However, this ruling would give an employer the right to say "we object to this because of 'religious reasons' so we're not going to cover it in your employer provided health care." Then, if we wanted this device to manage my wife's medical condition, we'd be forced to pay full cost out of pocket.
What information in the ruling are you basing this on?
I'm not sure this is true. I'm not sure it's false either, but being exempted from paying for a specific form of BC seems different than being exempted from paying for a specific medicine. Many medicines have multiple clinical uses.
You never want to make landing harder than it needed to be.
Right, and the entire point is to make flying (and landing) easier the vast majority of the time by enhancing what can be seen, right?
....or the battery itself.
Right, so instead of packing just explosives, pack a tiny battery and explosives, in the "new battery". It's theater.
Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the pens will multiply instead of disappear.
