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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (255100)	7/6/2014 3:59:43 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542130

I mean would you force Catholic hospitals to perform abortions? Not that they would. That's a good question but not the one on the table at the moment. I would force them to pay for health care insurance that covers contraceptives. Full health care insurance benefits. The real problem with this discussion is one we all know, the mistake many decades ago to go with a national work based health insurance policy rather than a federal government one. If we had the latter, then everyone's tax dollars would pay for contraceptives and any other benefit. Just as those of us who don't wish to see so much of our tax dollars put into defense, don't have any say in how that's allocated. Moreover, the migration from a work based system to a government based system is unusually complicated both in terms of policy and, quite obviously, politics. My own preference is to simply extend medicare to younger age groups. Start with extending it down to 60 or 50, let the system consolidate the changes; then move down further. But that's, deeply unfortunately, fairy tale stuff given the sad state of our political culture at the moment.