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I have a simple proposal. Since Bart Stupak (D for Douchebag) has decided that both the Public Option and all health insurance subsidized in the exchange will be inadequate and discriminatory against women (by denying them a vital range of basic reproductive health services while providing unrestricted reproductive health coverage to men), all women should be exempt from the individual mandate contained in the larger health bill.
It is grossly unfair to require both men and women to purchase a product, then sabotage said product so that it is harmful only to women. Since we have, as a nation, apparently decided that it is somehow immoral to provide proper and affordable women’s healthcare in either the public option or the Exchange, it is only just that we exempt women from the mandate.
Otherwise this bill amounts to nothing less than a tax on being female, and a subsidy for having a penis.