ObamaCare

How Exactly Will the HHS Mandate Kill Religious Freedom?

by Gail Finke on June 18, 2013 · 3 comments

If you’re a religious non-profit and you don’t file a 990 with the IRS, you’re off the hook. The US government says you are allowed to follow your beliefs and refuse to pay for your female  employees’ birth control devices…

Fortnight For Failure

by Dr. Paul Kengor on June 12, 2013 · 18 comments

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For the second year in a row, the USCCB has issued a call for a Fortnight for Freedom, running from June 21 to July 4. As the website states, “The U.S. bishops have called for … a…

Death Panels? Of Course…

by Dr. Tracy C. Miller on May 31, 2013 · 5 comments

Recently the debate about “death panels” has been heating up as Republican Congressional leaders express their opposition to implementing the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) by refusing to appoint members to serve on it. The IPAB, which was referred to…

Religious Freedom and the Need to Wake Up

by Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. on May 30, 2013 · 10 comments

“IRS officials have, of course, confessed that they inappropriately targeted conservative groups — especially those with ‘tea party’ or ‘patriot’ in their names — for extra scrutiny when they sought non-profit status. Allegations of abuse or harassment have since broadened…

Faith Under Fire: An HHS Mandate Cautionary Tale

by Gail Finke May 6, 2013

Of the dozens of private companies suing the government over the Department of Health and Human Services mandate for employers to provide sterilization and early stage abortifacients, Eden Food Corp. has been the most controversial.
Since filing suit, Eden Foods…

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Obama Wants Us to Pay for Abortion-Causing Devices, Too!

by Steven Mosher and Elizabeth Crnkovich April 25, 2013

Obamacare’s so-called “contraceptive mandate” has been much in the news. But much of what the administration calls “contraception” is actually abortion.
Take the copper IUD, for example. It is advertised as a contraceptive device, but even the New York Times,…

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Faith Under Fire: Sebelius Jumps the Gun

by Gail Finke April 23, 2013

So much for the HHS public comment process.
On the final day public comments were being accepted about proposed revisions to a hotly contested HHS rule, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told participants in a livestreamed propaganda presentation — err, healthcare…

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Obama’s “Compromise”: Deciding Who Gets Religious Freedom

by Matthew J. Franck February 12, 2013

After nearly a year, the Obama administration released, on February 1, its latest version of a “compromise” with the employers who object, on religious grounds, to the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate that their health plans cover no-cost access…

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Seven Million to be Thrown Off Health Plans

by Keith Koffler February 7, 2013

Remember when Obama promised that under his health scheme you could keep your health insurance and your doctor?

Well forget it. You can’t necessarily keep your insurance or your doctor. Period.
The Congressional Budget Office now says that, because of…

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Moral Schizophrenia

by Ken Connor February 7, 2013

“Your freedom is likely to be someone else’s harm.”
So says bioethicist Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center, responding to the recent controversy over provisions in Obamacare that penalize smokers.
In the era of the Bloomberg ban on Big Gulps,…

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