29 Feb 2012 4:37 pm
You apparently missed the part about making health insurance deductibility personally deductible, making it as easy to change health insurance as auto insurance.Where is that in Roy Blunt's Amendment? Yeah, lobbying one's boss in a big company is very difficult. Maybe everyone's plan would have to be changed, too.Absolutely, if some health insurance company was unreasonable it what it offered, 10 would take its place, even if that meant they'd be started from scratch.You've gone through all kinds of contortions in an effort not to admit that Roy Blunt's Amendment goes way too far. 'Maybe' this or 'if' that.....Maybe I could fly if I grew wings. Olympia Snowe acknowledged as much today. Now that she has announced her retirement, she is free to speak the truth.Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) came out today against a piece of legislation her fellow Republicans are advancing to stop the Obama administrations new birth control rule. The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), would go much farther the Obama rule and allow any employer to deny coverage for contraceptives and other preventative health care services to their employees. The measure puts your boss in your bedroom and in between you and your doctor, as ThinkProgress Josh Dorner noted, and could endanger millions of womens insurance coverage for preventive health care. Republican lawmakers have rallied around Blunts amendment. A vote is scheduled for tomorrow, attached to an unrelated transportation bill. But Snowe who announced her retirement yesterday said on MSNBC today that the Blunt Amendment goes too far: SNOWE: With respect to the Blunt amendment, I think its much broader than I could support. I think we should focus on the issue of contraceptives and whether or not it should be included in a health insurance plan and what requirements there should be.VIDEO Edited by MistyBlue, 29 February 2012 - 05:41 PM.