I’m going to go back and put this little nugget in my huge poster from yesterday about why not to support health care, but for now, just take this on its own:

In the Exchange set up by the House health reform bill, HR 3962, a plan cannot both cover abortion and take subsidies.

It can, however, cover erectile dysfunction.

Meanwhile, gender rating is banned by the bill.

An insurance plan in the exchange HAS to cover maternity care, as well as well-baby care. (HR 3962 Sec. 222b)

But it can opt out of covering routine OBGYN visits.

Have you noticed a pattern? I’ll spell it out for you. A woman, under the House health bill, only receives help with comprehensive reproductive health coverage if she gets pregnant and stays that way.

Just like Bart Stupak thinks she should be.

I wonder what kind of pie he thinks women should bake while they stand barefoot in the kitchen.

This post is going to be a bit long, so I’ll hide it behind a cut.

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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.