Insurance arose as a way for individuals to pool their risk of some low-probability/high-cost misfortune befalling them. It shouldn’t be necessary to point this out, but coming of child-bearing age and choosing to use contraception is not an insurable event. It’s a volitional act. It may have good consequences for the person taking the action and society at large, but it is still a volitional act. It makes no sense to talk about insuring against the eventuality that a particular person will use contraception. Strictly speaking, contraception has nothing to do with insurance.Read TGIF here.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
TGIF: Contraception: Insuring the Uninsurable
Labels:
contraception,
First Amendment,
Obamacare,
religion freedom
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