Today, while most right-thinking Americans are demonstrating their love for Jesus and their hate of homos by eating deep-fried diabetes sandwiches at Chick-fil-A, normal Americans who are more concerned with what is going on in their own pants are getting some free sexy stuff from Barack Obama’s Smooth Love Sexytime socialist government:
Beginning today, up to 47 million women may be eligible to get free access to preventive health care services as that provision of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act goes into effect.
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Under the new provision that goes into effect August 1, 2012, women will be eligible to receive the following eight services without paying a co-pay:
- Well-woman visits, including an annual check-up for adult women to get recommended preventive services, and additional visits if women and their doctors determine them necessary.
- Contraception and contraceptive counseling: Women will have free access to all FDA-approved contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures and patient education and counseling without a co-pay. Most workers in employer-sponsored plans are currently covered for contraceptives.
- Gestational diabetes screening for women 24 to 28 weeks pregnant, and those at high risk of developing gestational diabetes. Women who have gestational diabetes have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the future and the children of women with gestational diabetes are at increased risk of being overweight and insulin-resistant during childhood.
- HPV DNA testing every three years for women who are 30 or older, regardless of Pap smear results. HPV screening has been shown to help reduce the prevalence of cervical cancer.
- Annual sexually transmitted infections (STI) counseling for sexually-active women. Such sessions have been shown to reduce risky behavior in patients; only 28 percent of women aged 18-44 years reported that they had discussed STIs with a doctor or nurse, according to HHS.
- HIV screening and counseling for sexually-active women. From 1999 to 2003, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a 15 percent increase in AIDS cases among women, and a 1 percent increase among men, suggesting an increased risk for women.
- Breastfeeding support, supplies, and counseling for pregnant and postpartum women, including access to comprehensive lactation support and counseling from trained providers, as well as breastfeeding equipment.
- Interpersonal and domestic violence screening and counseling for all adolescent and adult women. An estimated 25 percent of U.S. women report being targets of intimate partner violence during their lifetimes and screening will lead to interventions to increase their safety.
That’s right ladies: free birth control! Woo hoo! You can now cancel your monthly abortion appointment which will leave time for more important pursuits like witchcraft, being lesbians, marrying and promptly divorcing men in order to steal all their monies, and most importantly: being uppity and not knowing your place! Obviously, this is good news for Chunky Reese Witherspoon and bad news for the forced birth crowd, but cheer up little godmonkeys; that diabetes screening is going to come in mighty handy after spending the day shoving greasy stuff in your mouth on National Chick-fil-Atio Day.





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Lady parts is lady parts…
Have you Fil-A-ted your chick today?
Also too, the Obamacare provision that requires insurance companies to refund their excessive premiums is also kicking in. But it’s too late — Americans already know that Obamacare is going to cost them money and wipe out their health care.
I will never understand why they wrote the law in such a way that most of the real payoff kicks in at or after the end of Obama’s first term.
Damn women always get the good shit.
Yeesh, these provisions kicking in really have Ross the Reluctant in top form today. He’s making leaps of logic that would probably take the gold in the high jump. For example;
Every tax dollar the government takes is a dollar that can’t go to charities and churches.
So, taxation is very bad and kills poor people. But wait, couldn’t I say that every tax dollar taken in is one that can’t go to abortion-on-demand, evolution text books, and engraved invitations to gay weddings?
It ain’t easy being a thinking wingnut in the 21st century.
As a Penis-American I feel left out. Can I get a Snickers bar or maybe a few beers?
The Viagra must flow!
I think it appropriate to say…VAGINA!
Freebies for lady-parts, especially teh poorz & dusky of hue lady bits??
Rush-Rage in 5…4…3…
They forgot the pony.
Meanwhile, brethren all across the land are purchasing tickets to heaven at their local Chick-fil-A’s then posting copies of their receipt’s on Facebook.
Price of meal for two at Chick-fil-A? $15
Purchasing new clothes for the occasion? $150
Posting receipt on FB? Everlasting Life
Hunh – you-all new to these lady parts?
We’re happy to let u haz the lollipop the Doctor gives us for being gud.
A House Republican lawmaker likened the implementation of a new mandate that insurers offer coverage for contraceptive services to Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the United States.
Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Kelly (R), an ardent opponent of abortion rights, said that today’s date would live in infamy alongside those two other historic occasions. Wednesday marked the day on which a controversial new requirement by the Department of Health and Human Services, which requires health insurance companies to cover contraceptive services for women, goes into effect.
“I know in your mind you can think of times when America was attacked. One is December 7th, that’s Pearl Harbor day. The other is September 11th, and that’s the day of the terrorist attack,” Kelly said at a press conference on Capitol Hill. “I want you to remember August the 1st, 2012, the attack on our religious freedom. That is a day that will live in infamy, along with those other dates.”
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/01/13070876-republican-likens-contraceptive-mandate-to-pearl-harbor-911
I don’t understand why conservatives get upset over this particular thing. If they’re true fiscal conservatives, shouldn’t they see this as a good inventment to prevent unwanted pregnancies, and therefore unwanted children, many of whom will utilize the social safety nets that they also hate?
But they’re not true fiscal conservatives. They’re corporatists. Just like the democrats who support massive subsidies to the private health insurance industry.
Democrats are subsidizing health insurance companies.
What Assholes!!
It’s the unauthorized sex.
They don’t really care about anything other than control/power over other people’s lives.
They are not fiscal conservatives, they are Culture Warriors.
They are not Pro-life, they are Anti-sex.
Let another round of massive pearl-clutching-fainting-couch-drama-queen screeching about LOSING OUR FREEDUMB OF RELIJINS!!!! begin again. I have to say, though, comparing this to Pearl Harbor and 911 is setting quite a bar for the rest of them. *golf clap*
They must be outraged, always about something, which requires repression of libruls.
Specifically, they are angry that teen birthrates are low in liberal states such as Massachusetts. In fact teen pregnancy rates are at the lowest, in sixty years. So, this is an outrage that can be blamed on President Obama.
Planned Parenthood has some reponsibility for preventing unwanted teen pregnancies. Therefore, TeaBagger politicians have targeted Planned Parenthood.
Teen birthrates are much higher in TeaBagger States such as Texas. It is correlated.
Here in Redneckistan, the Teabillies were out in force showing their hatred-as-patriotism while eating lard sandwiches. I’m happy, especially for women, that this part of Obamacare has come true.
Health insurance companies, earning fair profits, according to God’s plan, are exactly what we need to help people access adequate health care.
Are you kidding me?
(What’s the mighty O’s opinion?)
Why is there a private, for-profit health insurance industry at all? Between patient and doctor, it sucks a lot of dollars. Inefficiently.
Teen birthrates are highest in Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arkansas, and New Mexico,. There are slightly lower concentrations in the neighboring states of Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Arizona.
They’re dumb, but not too dumb to fuck.
~ Harry R. Sohl
Sometimes they’re Auntie-sex, dressing up like their hot aunt, trolling the sex shops for a little hooker-with-a-dingaling action.
Nobody’s too dumb to fuck. But if you’re smart, at some point, you realize it’s not aesthetic anymore.
The jury is still out on this one…
There’s a entrepreneurial opportunity here, and it will also funnel the money from Chick-Fil-A.
This market is ripe for unhealthy, life-shortening food branded with scriptures or trite anti-liberal platitudes, that by it’s nature it will turn off reasonable people.
Think of the possibilities…
Cheer up, Bucko! I found out that my next colonoscopy will be free and you can get a free one too after you hit 50.
Buy 50 colonoscopies, get 1 free?
Reply to MoeLarryandJesus @ 6:
Would that be the Snickers bars that were used to smuggle meth into the country?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/california-man-smuggle-meth-disguised-snickers-bars-u-s-article-1.1125383
SHORT ANSWER: The private, for profit, health insurance industry exists to suck dollars from employers, individuals and medical care providers–and gamble with it, in various investment markets. Period. Oh, yeah, they put some away to cover costs and taxes; but really, if it didn’t exist, legacy graduates from our finer institutions of higher education would never be able to find employment–and would have to live in the basement of their dad’s beach houses.
TBogg, you clearly have an EXCELLENT library of 40s – 50s trash books. Are they available for lending to your loyal readers?
I can’t imagine the Chic-fil-aters marketing their sammitches as “Darwin Award Specials”
However, it wouldn’t surprise me if they applied for a $1 million dollar Homeland Defense grant to study the soporific effects of chicken on unruly crowds.
LOl! I hope not. They are free for anyone over 50 years old. You normally only get one every 10 years (every 5 if they find a polyp).
I’m mostly interested in the witchcraft and uppity stuff. Where do I sign up?
I’m sure you’ll be thrilled to learn that one of the ads to the side of this page is for Liberty University.
“Training Champions for Christ.”
I absolutely love the 2009 post about Doubthat’s Chunky Reese Witherspoon deflationary encounter. I was in tears with laughter and best of all the post was on my B-Day (3 years ago). Somehow missed it at the time. Thank you, TBogg, you are awesome at twisting the blade so artistically and hilariously.
Martin Abzug, author of “How Cheap You Can Get,” was Bella Abzug’s husband.
Awesome.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-07-21/news/8602220418_1_rep-bella-abzug-novels-democratic
MoeLarryand Jesus beat me to it. Bella would have loved, loudly and wearing a big hat, the access to healthcare for women (and men).
I figure money going to the “Health Industrial Complex” is a little better than money going to the “Military Industrial Complex”.
Besides the MIC would never stand for a 20% cap on profits.
you are cutting off your own dick by referring to FREE birth control….it is a deception used by opponents…premiums…get it?
TBogg, you’re just biased against teh penises and members of the He-Man Woman Haterz Club (both Catlik AND “Teh Gaii Makes Me Feel Funny So Ban Them” chapters) because you know at least TWO wimmens who will speak to you, and you have evidence that you’ve had teh secks AT LEAST once!!1!!1!one!
Unless you can prove you blog from your basement, you must turn in your Official Bloggers Permit.
Unpossible – there are no hats in that picture.
You stole my comment, hehehe. I watched this asshat on Maddow last night and was totally gobsmacked. Flabbergasted.
The amazing thing about Ross Douthat is that he fricking ANNOUNCED that he has a Fertility Fetish and that the entire country should be run according to his sexual needs, and he STILL gets real estate in print.
80%? 80% of what? The industry knows how to obscure it.
The health insurance companies are parasitic middlemen who bought the republicans and the democrats, and now that they will be fuelled on subsidized payments, they’ll have even more funds to guarantee that America will never have a single payer system. I give it five years or less until they have republicans and democrats privatizing medicare.
Witchcraft is easy. It’s uppity that’s hard.
I offer Solitary Wicca instruction online for only 25 doubloons/lesson (other currencies, like Athenian oboloi or Nigerian gabanga strips acceptable: check daily exchange rates), and everyone loves them, and gets to be a Certified Spellcasting Lesbian Penis-shrinker within 6 wks at most. A snap, really. Anyone can do it.*
But uppity? You gotta get out and do that publicly. And if you’re below a certain size, or over or under a certain age range, it gets tough, because the opposition thinks you’re either girly and therefore to be discounted, or too old and crinkled and also therefore to be discounted. It takes guts. In essence, you have to get to a place, at least sometimes, where you don’t care what other people think of you, and occupy that place in public. Cf: Susan B. Anthony.
*Mild sarcasm. No disrespect to present-company practitioners intended.
Humf. My /Edmund Keane tag after the first line was unacceptable to the Comment Deva. And after all the offerings of vole skulls I’ve made at her altar…
A Senate investigation from 2010 highlighting which companies are trying to commit fraud and your conspiracy theories about the future?
Wow! You’ve sure convinced me!!!
Then again, what they are trying to do is now considered fraud and not standard operating procedures so I’m not sure what you’re so angry about.
…Or is this one of those “Obama isn’t waving his magic wand fast enough!!” type of criticism?
Let’s just call it “Bigot Pride Day”, where bigotophiles can show solidarity with bigots and come out as bigots in public.
Fraud? They seem to have Wellpoint down for a half a billion dollars in such reclassifications of MLR. Kindly provide me a link for the indictment for that fraud.
How do you have sex w/ someone shaped like a cueball w/out being bounced off the bed and into the corner pocket?
Whore Island. . . isn’t real.