From NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia:
Del. Bob Marshall just doesn’t get it. Despite this past year’s backlash against his “personhood” bill and the now infamous forced ultrasound law, he is continuing his crusade against women’s health and rights. Last week, the infamous anti-choice legislator pre-filed three anti-choice bills for the 2013 Virginia legislative session:
- H.B.1314, H.B.1315 would allow your boss to refuse to cover birth control and sterilization procedures in your insurance plan based on their own personal beliefs. Bosses should not be able to decide which types of health-care coverage their employees should get.
- H.B.1316 is one of the most deceptive bills we’ve seen. It exploits the issue of sex-selective abortion and pretends to support women’s rights. However, it penalizes doctors for failing to determine if sex is a factor in a woman’s decision to choose abortion.
Way to go, Taliban Bobby. Didn’t you and your gang of oppressors inflict enough damage on to the governor last year? Do Marshall and the rest of the anti-choice zealots in the Virginia General Assembly realize that the governor is now know, nationally, as Governor Ultra-Sound? We are the national laughing stock.
Why should anyone’s boss get to decide about what birth control someone uses or if your health insurance covers sterilization?
These are people who want the government out of your business? I think not. Bob Marshall has been an effen idiot since taking office. Its time for him to SDASTFU.
When Bob campaigned last year he said he was all about jobs. NOT. They all seem to get down to Richmond and focus on woman. What’s with that? I think it is the puritanical fixation on sex.
Bob was one of the co-founders of Judie Brown’s American Life League. It opposes all forms of birth control also.
http://www.all.org/
Marshall spends almost no money on his campaigns and relies on his religious base for support.
I am embarrassed to live in the 13th district.
Bob Marshall is a silly, effiminate little man in a small room. These are the same bunch of fools who scream and holler about limited government BS but they practice something way different. These measures are about as intrusive as government can get. Next think you know, there’ll be a tax on sex! The sex tax is coming!
Why is Bob so obsessed about what occurs in a woman’s vagina? I think Bob needs some real therapy for this obsession.
I’ld like to know how he thinks he can get that first stuff through the Insurance Regulators.
I guess he hasn’t thought that part through. He is part of the ready, fire, aim crew.
In regard to specific medical coverage, the real answer is to de-couple healthcare and employment. Employers should stop selecting and managing coverage, but instead provide dollars directly to employees to purchase their own medical coverage. Congress should make these dollars tax-deductable for the employer.
The employee could then choose the appropriate coverage for his/her family. Dual-income families could apply medical dollars from their respective jobs to the same policy and a medical policy would be attached to the employee rather than employer. This would make it easier to change jobs, because it would remove the uncertainty associated with changing medical coverage.
It would also make U.S. companies more competitive, because it would reduce the size of the HR staff needed to administer medical coverage.
There goes the group rate. Once you get out of the group rate, you either get charged by location or by age.
There seems to be no correct answer here.
And … I forgot to say …. Legislators and employers would not get to decide what is included in the policy that each family decides to purchase.
All policies should have to have the same coverage. Different tiers of coverage would work. for instance, a basic coverage could be the A policy. If you wanted to include elective cosmetic surgury and accupuncture, then have a B policy. That sort of thing.
But…since we are talking about bob Marshall, he really is trying to restrict abortion and eventually birth control so any discussion of insurance is really a side issue.
And … I forgot to say …. If medical coverage and employment are decoupled, legislators and employers would not get to decide what is included in the policy that each family decides to purchase. So Bob Marshall would be removed from the equation.
Bob Marshall needs to be removed from being a legislator.
Finally though, he has shown himself for what he really is. This legislation is a war on contraception also. One incremental step at a time.
The default is no contraception coverage and that includes sterilization. Who wants to pay for a tubal ligation or vasectomy out of pocket?
This legislation coupled with personhood legislation that gives a zygote the same rights as a grown women is clearly religion declaring a war on the rest of us.
Well, some legislator introduced anti-truck-nutz legislation….didn’t mean it went anywhere.
That’s a good point, Slow. Unfortunately, in Virginia last year we saw a lot of legislation that did go somewhere. Who would have ever thought that women of Virginia would have to have a sonogram and pay for it themselves before having an abortion. The legislation was enacted by the very people who are using to not have to pay for what they consider unnecessary medical procedures. I take it all seriously now.