Sebelius: Reduction in pregnancies compensates for the cost of contraception
posted at 5:36 pm on March 2, 2012 by Tina Korbe
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius yesterday assured a House panel that the contraception mandate will actually pay for itself.
“Who pays for it? There’s no such thing as a free service,” [Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Tim] Murphy asked.
Sebelius responded that that is not the case with insurance.
“The reduction in the number of pregnancies compensates for cost of contraception,” Sebelius answered.
Murphy expressed surprise by the answer.
“So you are saying, by not having babies born, we are going to save money on health care?” Murphy asked.
Sebelius replied, “Providing contraception is a critical preventive health benefit for women and for their children.”
Murphy again sought clarification.
“Not having babies born is a critical benefit. This is absolutely amazing to me. I yield back,” he said.
As Kentucky Republican Rep. Brad Guthrie pointed out, if Sebelius is correct, it’s curious that more insurance companies don’t already cover contraception. If it makes money for health insurance companies to cover it, why don’t they already do so voluntarily?
More importantly, Sebelius’ comments show an alarming disregard for the value of human life and hints at a desire for population control. Still, Sebelius wants to talk about the population in economic terms? Let’s talk about it. Does she understand that we’re headed toward an entitlement crisis, fueled in part by too many retirees to be supported by too few workers? If the U.S. has any kind of population problem, it’s that our population is not growing fast enough to support our entitlement state. Think that’s a stretch? For what it’s worth, Mark Steyn doesn’t.
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That’s sort of like the Chinese making families of the executed pay for the bullets used by their firing squad, isn’t it?
Socratease on May 10, 2013 at 5:25 PM
And pregnancy isn’t a disease, and a baby isn’t a tumor.
Ward Cleaver on May 10, 2013 at 5:25 PM
Benghazi, IRS snooping and now is? Friday news dump has a new meaning.
jawkneemusic on May 10, 2013 at 5:26 PM
Healthcare providers: “Pound sand.”
Ward Cleaver on May 10, 2013 at 5:28 PM
That’s a fine health care business ya got there….
‘Shame if somethin’ happened to it…..
viking01 on May 10, 2013 at 5:29 PM
Why don’t you go ask your old friend and campaign donor: George Tiller?
cptacek on May 10, 2013 at 5:29 PM
(yes, I’m telling her to go to hell)
cptacek on May 10, 2013 at 5:29 PM
She’s got some stones, eh?
BobMbx on May 10, 2013 at 5:29 PM
The Queen of Death.
22044 on May 10, 2013 at 5:30 PM
Are you effing kidding me?!?!?
I work in healthcare and we are already strapped because insurance companies, such as BCBS, want double digit cuts to reimbursements. How is that helpful to patient health? Medicaid and Medicare are crippling us.
We’re already not replacing needed staff, cutting our budgets 10% (and, no, we do NOT have automatic increases like the feds do, so these are real cuts), and expected to provide the same services. If health care executives take money away from their already thin bottom lines, your healthcare costs and premiums will go up even more.
All according to plan….
*spit*
ladyingray on May 10, 2013 at 5:34 PM
Thank heavens for Minister of Justice Eric Holder, who will personally make sure all is in order.
Left Coast Right Mind on May 10, 2013 at 5:36 PM
Ummm … free sex-reassignment surgery under ObamaCare?
/scratches head, checks own gender and wonders if it’s persistent, or, sometimes exists, sometimes not.
Paul-Cincy on May 10, 2013 at 5:37 PM
When you have a confirmed epic disaster on your hands, only if you are a Democrat, do you stay the course….*facepalm*
hillsoftx on May 10, 2013 at 5:39 PM
Could she just sit on a street corner with a tin cup and sing Daisy..?
d1carter on May 10, 2013 at 5:39 PM
Since when did sleazy Eric “Mark Rich Pardon” Holder ever let something as unimportant as federal regulations get in the way of the DNC quid pro quo gravy train?
viking01 on May 10, 2013 at 5:39 PM
OK, she’s HAL, the Queen of Death. Fixed.
22044 on May 10, 2013 at 5:41 PM
Does than mean Kathleen Sebelius used to be a man?
Steve Z on May 10, 2013 at 5:41 PM
What about those little baby girls in the womb?
From Kansans For Life:
As Governor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius:
INC on May 10, 2013 at 5:41 PM
Honestly it reminds me of some Democratic idiot on one of the Sunday talk shows a couple of weeks ago (watched by millions) who said we need immigration reform “so Americans can come out of the shadows” and participate in society.
I’m wondering, do these people listen to what they say? Being a woman, not a pre-existing condition? What were they before they were women? Calling illegal immigrants “Americans”? If they were Americans, they wouldn’t be illegal immigrants!
Paul-Cincy on May 10, 2013 at 5:42 PM
It’s like I went to bed last night in America and woke up in Nigeria.
Mark1971 on May 10, 2013 at 5:42 PM
These people know no shame.
Philly on May 10, 2013 at 5:43 PM
A lot of those “health industry executives” might wonder what’s in it for them. When they find out, they just might send Secretary Sebelius back with an empty hat.
Steve Z on May 10, 2013 at 5:44 PM
She wants donations before she puts them out of business…largest donors will be last to go.
d1carter on May 10, 2013 at 5:45 PM
LOL
d1carter on May 10, 2013 at 5:46 PM
Nonprofits…
Like Acorn, Organizing for America and Media Matters…
I wonder how this would be taken if the headline read -
“Karl Rove asks organizations to help the NRA implement gun education in schools… Or the bit scouts to help implement after school programs…”
This BS banana republic stuff has to stop NOW.
Skywise on May 10, 2013 at 5:48 PM
Good list. Add on that the doctor with a filthy clinic and accused of cannibalism of fetal remains was given a $1000 fine and no followup inspections.
cptacek on May 10, 2013 at 5:48 PM
FOAD, hag.
Resist We Much on May 10, 2013 at 5:50 PM
What’s the waiver total today?
kunegetikos on May 10, 2013 at 5:51 PM
But God help you if you are an unborn female. In Obama’s and Sibelius’ book that makes you a sitting duck.
natasha333 on May 10, 2013 at 5:52 PM
Since when has Her Highness of Health Care or Barry been concerned about “the law”?
GarandFan on May 10, 2013 at 5:54 PM
USSR – United States Socialist Republic
Comrades – your healthcare will soon be here.
Line up on the red line.
redguy on May 10, 2013 at 5:54 PM
So congress critters can indulge in insider trading and secretaries in the executing branch can extort money with threats of punishment for not paying?
Why do we even bother with having laws?
gekkobear on May 10, 2013 at 5:56 PM
Democrat Party message to WOMEN…….in the womb…..YOU’RE DEAD.
And we’ll give more money every year for Planned Parenthood to kill you!!!
Suggested 2016 Democrat Party slogan…….DEATH!!!!
…for the unborn women , for Seniors on the Medicare we’re going to collapse, and to the US Economy.
PappyD61 on May 10, 2013 at 6:08 PM
So, did the providers kick in more money or not?
PattyJ on May 10, 2013 at 6:11 PM
Maybe she could hit up Soros for some cash!
I’m sure he could fund all of Obamacare for… a month or two…
ajacksonian on May 10, 2013 at 6:13 PM
Being dumber than a bag of hammers apparently is. And you can’t fix stupid.
CurtZHP on May 10, 2013 at 6:24 PM
One aspect of the President’s latest “charm offensive” with which I totally agree:
His charm is certainly offensive.
IndieDogg on May 10, 2013 at 6:28 PM
OK, let’s see here…
Roughly a million legal abortions a year in the US right now — 50 million since Roe v. Wade. (WOW!!! Go USA!!!)
Something like 350,000 are performed by/through Planned Parenthood each year, which receives about half of its funding from good ol’ Uncle Sam. (Those of you who think you don’t literally pay for abortions of unwanted children, please pay attention.)
According to a Guttmacher Institute study from 2004, abortions due to rape and/or incest amount to less than 1.5% of all abortions. Abortions due to health concerns (baby’s or mother’s health) counted for 12%. All the rest were done as a matter of convenience. That is to say that 6 out of 7 babies aborted are killed to spare their mothers and/or fathers the inconvenience of their existence.
Apparently, being a human baby is not enough to get coverage under Obamacare. But being a woman who wants to get rid of a human baby is enough.
We should, each and every one of us, be deeply ashamed.
Humphrey on May 10, 2013 at 6:28 PM
Ava Peron version 2.0
Axion on May 10, 2013 at 6:59 PM
I thought self-buggery was impossible.
cornbred on May 10, 2013 at 7:07 PM
Methinks he’s going to need some improvement on the charm part of that. He’s got the other part down cold, though.
LooseCannon on May 10, 2013 at 7:34 PM
The slovenly Warren Buffett is piling up scads of filthy lucre because the REB is blocking Keystone. He should be good for a few mil.
slickwillie2001 on May 10, 2013 at 7:35 PM
Mickey Bloomberg! That’s the ticket! He is all about ‘health regulation’!
ajacksonian on May 10, 2013 at 7:55 PM
Succubus DIE!
dirtengineer on May 10, 2013 at 10:08 PM