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These are the people who took away healthcare benefits from all Americans because they didn't personally want to fund birth control and women's health. This is

These are the people who took away healthcare benefits from all Americans because they didn't personally want to fund birth control and women's health. This is not true though.. Most Americans have these benefits. Hobby Lobby just pushed for an extension of the existing Religious exemption to also apply closely held businesses. It affected a tiny portion of the population.

turtlesdown11 2y ago
> It affected a tiny portion of the population. > According to a 2009 research paper from NYU Stern School of Business, these corporations account for 52 percent of private employment and 51 percent of private-sector output in the country. Those percentages might be outdated now but still give a sense of just how many workers are employed at closely held corporations. Fifty-two percent of today’s private sector employees comes out to approximately 60.4 million people, based on the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://slate.com/business/2014/06/hobby-lobby-supreme-court-ruling-how-many-people-work-at-closely-held-corporations.html https://slate.com/business/2014/06/hobby-lobby-supreme-court...
- WillPostForFood 2y ago
  And in the following paragraph: Of course it’s extremely unlikely that all of those companies are about to claim a religious exemption from providing coverage of contraception. Aaron Blake at the Washington Post points to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll that found that 85 percent of large employers offered contraception coverage prior to Obamacare requiring it. Regardless, this is nitpicking, and the grandparent claim that it blocked contraception converage for all Americans is wrong.
  - turtlesdown11 2y ago
    The rights of millions of Americans were affected. Not a tiny portion of the population. Also the grandparent comment correctly noted that all Americans lost rights in the ruling, which is accurate. Any American could get a job at a closely held company and not be extended contraceptive coverage.
  - chuckadams 2y ago
    It's nice that these corporations have the noblesse oblige to provide us the healthcare benefits that morally speaking should be ours by constitutional right.
giraffe_lady 2y ago
It's not wise or historically accurate to consider these unrelated projects, or their goals unknowable. If you found it important to argue for it that way in 2017 I would call it naive, for doing it now I call you complicit.

turtlesdown11 2y ago

> It affected a tiny portion of the population. > According to a 2009 research paper from NYU Stern School of Business, these corporations account for 52 percent of private employment and 51 percent of private-sector output in the country. Those percentages might be outdated now but still give a sense of just how many workers are employed at closely held corporations. Fifty-two percent of today’s private sector employees comes out to approximately 60.4 million people, based on the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://slate.com/business/2014/06/hobby-lobby-supreme-court-ruling-how-many-people-work-at-closely-held-corporations.html https://slate.com/business/2014/06/hobby-lobby-supreme-court...

WillPostForFood 2y ago
And in the following paragraph: Of course it’s extremely unlikely that all of those companies are about to claim a religious exemption from providing coverage of contraception. Aaron Blake at the Washington Post points to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll that found that 85 percent of large employers offered contraception coverage prior to Obamacare requiring it. Regardless, this is nitpicking, and the grandparent claim that it blocked contraception converage for all Americans is wrong.
- turtlesdown11 2y ago
  The rights of millions of Americans were affected. Not a tiny portion of the population. Also the grandparent comment correctly noted that all Americans lost rights in the ruling, which is accurate. Any American could get a job at a closely held company and not be extended contraceptive coverage.
- chuckadams 2y ago
  It's nice that these corporations have the noblesse oblige to provide us the healthcare benefits that morally speaking should be ours by constitutional right.

giraffe_lady 2y ago

It's not wise or historically accurate to consider these unrelated projects, or their goals unknowable. If you found it important to argue for it that way in 2017 I would call it naive, for doing it now I call you complicit.