Why should employers have to pay for contraception anyway?

[Marley23]

@John_Mace

This is also another example of of the government taking a sledge hammer approach to a problem. Can someone tell me why this is considered a rational policy:

Problem: Some small fraction of women cannot afford birth control.
Solution: Force employers to provide birth control regardless of whether the employee can afford it or not.

Employers are not being forced to provide birth control. This is about insurance coverage. You are normally detail-oriented enough to get this, and that’s a basic error.

A more rational analysis would be:

Problem: Some small fraction of women cannot afford birth control.
Solution: The government provides birth control for women who cannot afford it.

Hell, even this analysis is more rational:

Problem: Some small fraction of women cannot afford birth control.
Solution: The government provides birth control for all women.

Yup. And as soon as you can get that through Congress…