The media is aflame with contraception insurance news. Obamacare will require all employers, including Catholic medical facilities, to provide insurance coverage for birth control. A Georgetown law student testifies before a Democratic Congressional panel about how badly it's needed.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're talking about a required benefit. It doesn't matter who's required to provide it. It doesn't matter what's being required. The problem is the government dictating what an employer must provide as a BENEFIT.
Employers offer many things: pay, opportunity, location, distance to mass transportation, parking, training, work conditions, hours, benefits. Employees decide if an employer's overall package is a fair deal for the work requested in return. Someone who plans to use mass transportation will need to find something else in the package to compensate for an employer that requires a long walk, or skip that one altogether.
Requiring a particular benefit is no different than requiring any other detail related to any of the other items in the employer's package: it ought to be none of the government's business. Adults can do the math themselves. If you insist on birth control as a covered benefit, find an employer who offers it, thereby making the math work for you. Allow those without your requirement to accept employment on their terms. Ever hear of diversity?
Bruce Kaskubar
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Rochester
