President Barack Obama announced last week, health insurance should also cover contraceptives for women. Employers would therefore be required to provide contraceptives free of charge to their female employees. This would include all employers, even churches who oppose the use of contraceptives.
As a private institution, the church should be able to decide whether or not it wants to provide those measures to its employees. However, aside from the intrusion on personal freedom, there is a (possibly) even more critical economic dimension to this controversy.
As Peter Schiff points out in his video (see below), providing free contraceptives will lead to increased costs for employers and increased costs overall, since women will select the most effective products, regardless of price, if these products are provided for free.
The US already spends more money on healthcare than any other country in the world. Instead of providing more “free” coverage(the costs are just transferred to the taxpayers), the government should focus rather on spending the money it has most effectively.
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