Exempt from Healthcare Insurance

Posted on January 12, 2010 | 2 Comments

Fine.

Of course, it means you have to change your religious belief and also become hard working Amish.

Fine.

Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), as a key negotiator on the Senate bill, backs the religious exemption. But is this just for New York?

Fine??

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2 responses to “Exempt from Healthcare Insurance”

  1. Beverly Babcock's avatar Beverly Babcock | January 12, 2010 at 3:12 pm | Reply

    Well, there are large communities of Amish in PA, IN, MD, as well. Will they also include Christian Scientists in this? I was an organist for many years at a CS Church, and most of them didn’t take the medical insurance they could get via their work. That would certainly be discrimination if they weren’t included. I see the SCOTUS becoming extremely busy in the near future.

  2. Daniel's avatar Daniel | January 12, 2010 at 3:22 pm | Reply

    Hard to say. I definitely agree with the probable “lack of inclusion” with those communities in other states. (I believe I mentioned something similar on Surber’s blog.)

    Definitely something is going to happen along this line. We may, or may not, like the results.

    Personally, I would much rather see a fast inclusion on SCOTUS’ docket on the constitutionality of this whole mess as soon as (if?) this “bill” comes out of ‘conference’ (cough, hack – we know who’s not going to be invited to be a part of that now, don’t we).

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