Challenging Affordable Care Act--religious freedom?

[Rampant.A.I.]

People - even business owners - are perfectly free to believe whatever the fuck they wish. The issue is can they inflict those beliefs on third-parties?

Suppose they advocated sacrificing virgins to a volcano god? Must society accept such barbarism because some silly douchebag claims it is "religion?"

Agreed. Why should an employer have any say over what insurance covers, or any say in the private lives of employees?

This is just another attempt by religion to justify discrimination as "part of my religion," and save a buck doing it.

[DeistPaladin]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/2...1W20140325

I haven't been following this story 'too' intently, but ran across this article. I have mixed feelings about all of this. I'm no longer religious and while I classify myself as an atheist, is it right to bestow MY views onto religious people? Should all corporations, regardless of their religious affiliations, be required to pay for contraception under their insurance plans?

Your thoughts/opinions?

When we as a nation allowed that "corporations are people", you just had to know the next step was "corporations have feelings, too". After all, if they're people than don't they also enjoy freedoms including freedom of religion?

Time to end this crap. Corporations... are... not... people.

As an MBA, I can tell you that the whole "corporate person" legal identity was only ever intended as an accounting tool, to manage asset ownership and financial liabilities. When you're dealing with a large company owned by many stockholders, this is the only way I can see to do it. That does not mean they're entitled to any rights or freedoms afforded to live human beings.

It's just an accounting tool.

[Angrboda]

Don't get me started on Citizen's United.....

The simple fact is, in the U.S., healthcare costs more, and delivers less. There are a number of factors contributing to this, from litigation happy people to greater protections in law for health and pharmaceutical providers. Preventive care does add to the cost of health care, but it is not the real reason why American healthcare is the mess that it is.