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Technicality threatens medical coverage

vendredi 7 avril 2023 à 14:32

A court ruling could eliminate preventive medical care for millions of Americans.

The lawsuit was filed by religious fanatics who object to paying for drugs to prevent transmission of HIV. Those drugs, over time, can wipe out HIV, but extremist Christians think that the deity they worship intended HIV to make homosexuals suffer and we humans should not interfere.

The decision was based on the perverse idea that they have a constitutional right not to pay for insurance coverage of treatments that violate their religion.

I don't think that they object to cancer screening as such. I think those are the collateral damage caused by a desire to punish people for having sex.