Every part of your day can be a religious practice.

For some people, running their business in accordance with their faith is a part of their religious practices.

LK

Isn't that the whole point of the push for EMRs? And what stops her from seeing the regular doc then getting the script filled at a clinic? Or just paying the $10/mo for it? My insurance company isn't giving me free condoms, and I don't have any get out of jail free cards made available to me if my birth control fails.

Condom breaks and the woman doesn't want a kid with the guy? She can take the morning after pill, get an abortion, or give the child up for adoption. Man doesn't want a child with this woman? Too bad asshole, we're going to confiscate 15% to 25% of your post-FICA earnings for the next 18 years, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it, even if she broke the condom in the first place or lied about being on pills.

Stop with the butthurt.

Pay for your own Plan B. This decision doesn't take that away.

LK

You should bump up those limits. Liability coverage is cheap and will keep you out of bankruptcy court if things go wrong one day. I have the max, $500,000 combined single limit, with another $1,000,000 of umbrella coverage hanging over that.

I'm dinged on a few areas I have little control over. First being the car, apparently it's one of the most popular stolen cars in America. Then our geography, we're in a part of New York with high DWI rates. Progressive was far and away the cheapest for both of us. I periodically check to see if this is still the case (easy to do when you work for an insurance agency) and so far it is. More's the pity.

Were there any documented cases of Chic-Fil-A refusing to serve someone because they were gay? Refusing to hire someone because they were gay? Attacking someone because they were gay?

LK

No, you fucking moron.

Corporations are "persons" not "people" and moreover, only "Citizens" can vote. Corporations are not now, have never been and shall never be "citizens".

LK

Shut your oppressive mouth. Cock-man! Despoiler!

Everyone knows that it's only discrimination to treat people differently when women aren't happy with the disparity.

LK

Blah, typo.

We bought the cars together. Same dealer, same color, down to the add on options.

We had it before the ACA's mandate. 85% of group health plans provided it. Non-profits in all 50 States and many local governments make it available to those who can't afford it. The cost is not prohibitive even for those without insurance who don't wish to avail themselves of the aforementioned options.

The mandate was a solution looking for a problem, or if I'm more cynical, it was an effort to throw red meat at the base and distract them from the shitty economy. "Sure, we can't get you a job, but don't for the other guy because HE HATES WOMEN!!!"

I guess you missed that part about "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"

LK

I'd concur with you. Viagra is the ultimate elective drug. Unless it's proscribed for cardiac reasons, then I'd be cool with it being covered. Ditto for those occasions when birth control pills are proscribed for hormonal imbalances. As an elective drug though? That's absurd. Particularly when there are so many low cost generics available. Not to mention the safety net of non-profits and government health departments that give birth control out to almost anyone who asks, in many cases without even means testing them.

I'll be cool with the ACA mandating equal pricing for the genders when my auto insurance company is held to the same standard.

Shakrai, male, 32, 790 FICO score, zero moving violations, zero accidents, six month premium for 2012 Honda Civic: $450
Shakrai's ex-gf, female, 31, 710 FICO score, three moving violations, two at fault accidents, six month premium for 2011 Honda Civic: $390

Same liability limits, I had higher physical damage deductibles, and a 10% discount for defensive driver training that she lacked, both through Progressive.

I wonder when the big man at 1600 Pennsylvania is going to fix this gender disparity?

That's kind of the crux of the matter, isn't it? A month of generic birth control pills costs about $10/mo. Purchased in bulk, condoms are about $0.50/ea. Both are readily available at no cost from a variety of sources for those who can't afford them. Setting aside the heated political debate, it seems foolish to route these sorts of purchases through your insurance company, with inevitable overhead, rather than simply purchasing them yourself.

Of course, low information voters on both sides eat this shit up. It's red meat for the bases of both political parties.

Let the flame fest begin!

Google won't let you opt out of their wi-fi location database without changing your SSID. So I'm the one who has to change my network and every connected device if I don't want to be part of their geolocation efforts. Because an opt-out by MAC address would be sooooooo difficult to implement.