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rick,

What employer in their right mind would even want to deny contraceptive coverage to his/her female employees? We once owned a business and we can't imagine telling a female employee we wouldn't allow her insurance that she pays a significant portion of, to cover contraceptives. That's insane. What female would want to work for people who intrude into female employees' personal business? And you can bet on the news traveling fast in small communities.

Employers should be happy to have contraceptives covered. An employee who is pregnant, happily planned or not, does need some time off work, before and after a birth.

rick, you completely ignored the stats on saving money in my previous comment. You don't believe the data? Or do you have a "moral" objection that trumps saving tax dollars?

I have a hunch when you say you're afraid of expanding entitlements growing our personal tax burden, ruin, you are not talking about the sweet deals the super wealthy are getting on their taxes, tax shelters overseas, lower than ordinary income tax rates on capital gains, interest and dividends which used to be called unearned income and big tax breaks and subsidies for corporations.

Low capital gains rates are allowing the wealthy to pay lower and lower tax rates even as their incomes have gone through the roof. Half of capital gains income goes to just the richest 0.1%. Looks like a fat entitlement expansion to me. Capital gains accounts for 2.2% of earners under $200,000. The median income in St. Louis County is $42,000 to $52,000, most earned through actually working a job or two or three.

You can't talk about entitlements and totally ignore what the much lower tax rates for the ultra wealthy are doing to the personal tax burden on the rest of us.

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