It seems to me that our President is trying to get out of hot water with a little sleight of hand on the contraception issue. The original rule said religiously affiliated employers must provide full contraception coverage. Obviously this didn't sit well with Catholic leadership (though the average woman in the pew could care less since most of them used some form of contraception regardless of what the church said).
The new rule says that insurers (not the employer) must offer free coverage to women working at religiously affiliated institutions. Just where, exactly, are the insurance companies going to get the money to provide this "free" coverage? Might they raise the cost of insurance (in which case, isn't the employer still paying for it)? Might the government pay them, in which case the money comes from the taxpayers, which for the most part are the employees, so it's not really "free".
I don't get it. The original rule said the employer had to provide the coverage, it didn't say that women had to take advantage of it! Apparently, the bishops don't trust their female parishioners to follow their made-up rules without financial consequences.
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