CMA Health Policy Blog

Corporations Don’t Bleed

July 2, 2014 at 4:47 pm centeruser Leave a comment

Too often people with low and moderate incomes fail to get the health coverage they need.  Women are frequently harmed the most.  In addition to their own health concerns, they are usually the gender responsible for family-planning and family care-taking.

The Supreme Court’s decision in Hobby Lobby reduces women’s rights and erodes women’s access to health care.  In Hobby Lobby, the Court found that “closely held” corporations needn’t provide health insurance for their employees if it would violate their religious beliefs  Incredibly, the decision advances corporate rights over women’s rights.  And it advances the notion that corporations are people too – with religious beliefs!

Corporations don’t bleed; they don’t get pregnant; they don’t take care of children and parents.  Women do.

Congress:  Take action.  Reconsider the Religious Freedom Restoration Act at the heart of the Hobby Lobby decision.

Women, Men, people who bleed, get sick, and take care of others who do:  Speak out against this injustice.

Entry filed under: Access to Health Care, Bipartisanship, Help for Low Income People, Hobby Lobby, Judith Stein, Supreme Court, Women. Tags: Corporate Greed, Fact and Fiction, Hobby Lobby, judith stein, Supreme Court, Women.