Leave insurance plans to employers
Recently, Mike Bruno attacked the Catholic Church over their resistance to the Obama administration’s attempt to force them to provide contraception, abortion-inducing and sterility drugs under their health care plan. He makes the ridiculous claim that “it is the NIH, NAS, AMA, HHS and other scientific/secular bodies that define what health care is and is not in these United States. It is absolutely not the purview of religious organizations.” He also says, “No religious organization sits at the table that defines what is and is not health care.”
He is flat wrong. The Catholic Church provides and pays for the health care for their employees. They decide what the configuration of that plan will be and what will be included in it. And this is exactly the way it should be. Each employer/employee group is best qualified to determine the makeup of their own plan — not a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington trying to force us all into a one-size-fits-all plan.
Bruno also thinks that the church is missing the point. However, it is Bruno himself who completely misses the point. These dictates by the Obama administration are a violation of our individual freedoms. This is very dangerous territory. We have a government that thinks it’s fine for an nonelected bureaucrat to pass rules that trample our religious freedoms as protected by the Constitution. And we have citizens like Mr. Bruno who, foolishly, are just fine with that.
You have to ask the question — if they can and will do this, where does it stop? First the individual mandate forcing us to buy insurance, now this. What’s next? Oh yeah — we already know — it’s the Obama administration now demanding that insurance companies provide those contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs — for free.
John Craychee
St. Charles