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Congress Exempts Amish From Health Care Bill

There is an interesting controversy brewing over the current version of the health care bill in which Amish families are exempted from the mandatory coverage. Other groups may also receive exemptions.

For some Americans who do not want to pay for health insurance (but face a fine under the law), the exemptions are likely to trigger challenges. Why should an Amish person be allowed exemption, but not someone with political or philosophical opposition to the insurance?

The Amish do use medical facilities and regular doctors, but they pay in cash. They believe that such care is the primary responsibility of their church.

The question is why religious conscientious objectors are given exemptions but not secular conscientious objectors. There are plenty of people who have profound objections to this plan that are not religious based. Is it far to allow only faith-based objectors to get exemptions so that some Christians can apply but not Cato members?

Congress can probably prevail in such distinctions (much like conscientious objectors to the draft), but it raises in my view a legitimate question of fairness.

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185 thoughts on “Congress Exempts Amish From Health Care Bill”

  1. empire ccokie – All the hmo and pharma stocks are up in the US today in hopes a republican win will end health care reform.

  2. Ecookie,

    I am sure that that could be arranged with a little help from your friends in Local Law Enforcement. Hell some may even do it for fun. Oh yeah they do that anyway.

  3. AY – It’s not too bad really. Not 74 degrees, more like 32. But that’s above freezing, which is a bit unusual this time of year. So it’s all good. Except listening to the US health care debate made me want to taser myself.

  4. No B12.

    I do not believe that he did. Are you sure that your fog has lifted? Some hang overs are worse than others. But you have to be aware of that. The take home lobotomy kit, you are aware that you should have used it with adult supervision. Not as successful as you would have liked I see. But then how could you tell the difference. Oh yeah. You can’t…..

  5. Go to the corrections page and put in a request like Stephen did if it bothers you that much.

  6. Yes, I admitted that to you yesterday, but I await your list. We already know I’m not Anom re he answered you yesterday.

    So name all of the incarnations Mr. Ex Ag

  7. Morning, EmpireCookie,

    Is your weather up North as good and warm as it is in Texas? We are expecting 74 degrees today. Sun, oh yeah.

  8. B12,

    Speaking from experience? You could probably do better than try and inflame the women folks on here. But then you do use Jacker of Threads as another nom de plume, do you not?

  9. I like how you use B12. You probably thought of it when you reached for the bottle this morning. Great stuff for reducing self induced trifling.

  10. Now you are posting as your norm.

    The fog has lifted and Jackie’s back in town.

  11. I can’t point to it and Swathmore Mom or Elaine might be able to reference it, but somewhere I read or saw on the Tele yesterday that Mass. has a history of not electing women to high offices.

    Not sure how they were trying to paint that,I only caught a snippet.

  12. B12,

    I hope you have flushed your body of those evil spirits that you consumed the last TWO days. It’s ok to lift your spirits with spirits but thats only if your in the spirit of things.
    ************************

    You are only to aware of the evil that longs for ones soul. I presume that you and Pat made the same compact, that your Master Pat has said that the Haitian made?

    Try Rehab. The brown bag and the bridge is becoming the norm for you these days. Do you still agree? Use some of your troll money for absolution. Send it to Haiti. They could use it and well, you know yours came from your pact with Pat and the Devil.

  13. empirecookie:

    you could be right even if you werent trying.
    Brown has early lead in MA.

  14. If Martha Coakley loses, it will be because she did not run a good campaign. Obama’s role in this is that he has quit blaming the economic disaster on Bush and has tried to appear too non-partisan.

  16. sar⋅casm  

    –noun
    1. harsh or bitter derision or irony.
    2. a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark: a review full of sarcasms.

  18. What he said:

    If Martha Coakley loses this week it will be because Barack Obama has failed America and turned us into a socialist wasteland worse than North Korea which has given rise to a tide of populist anger which has been harnessed by a resurgent Republican party who then will win the war on terrorism, revive the economy that Obama has single-handedly destroyed, and bring back commonsense conservative principles that made this country great, won all of our wars, and freed the black man… although conservatives are still kind of split over that last one.

    If Martha Coakley wins it will be because of ACORN.

    http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2010/01/17/wednesdays-news-today-because-you-have-more-important-things-to-do/

  19. Mornin sunshine I been waiting for you to get up. How are you feeling today. As promised I wasn’t the first to post today. I awaited for you, but you, hehe, have fallen of the wagon.

    Sing:

    Today is the day the lord has made, not like tomorrow or yesterday, he made today in a special way, so lets all sing and be glad.

    I hope you have flushed your body of those evil spirits that you consumed the last TWO days. It’s ok to lift your spirits with spirits but thats only if your in the spirit of things.

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