{"id":181587,"date":"2016-05-12T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/12\/i-need-to-stop-calling-him-governor-rat-f\/"},"modified":"2016-05-12T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T23:44:00","slug":"i-need-to-stop-calling-him-governor-rat-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/12\/i-need-to-stop-calling-him-governor-rat-f\/","title":{"rendered":"I Need to Stop Calling Him Governor Rat F%$#*"},"content":{"rendered":"

He just jammed up the useless Baltimore Executive to force him to install air-conditioning before the start of the next school year<\/a> instead of waiting for at least 3 years, and now he going to sign into a law a bill that provides free birth control to Marylanders<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Advocates say a new Maryland law will place the state at the forefront of efforts to require insurance plans to offer birth control at no out-of-pocket cost, expanding access to women and men who want to prevent unwanted pregnancies.<\/span>

<\/span> The law goes further than President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which already reduced costs for women seeking birth control in many cases.<\/span>

<\/span> Under the Contraceptive Equity Act, Maryland will be the first state to require insurance companies to cover over-the-counter emergency contraceptives, such so called morning-after pills, at no cost. Maryland also will be the first state prohibiting out-of-pocket costs for men who have vasectomies.<\/span>

<\/span> Advocates who pushed the bill through the General Assembly say Maryland is the first state to pass such a comprehensive approach.<\/span>

<\/span> “Maryland is on the forefront across the board with this act,” said Karen Nelson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Maryland.<\/span>

<\/span> Other provisions prohibit co-payments for any type of contraceptive and also ban preauthorization requirements for long-acting contraceptives such as IUDs. The law allows women to receive six months’ worth of birth control pills at one time.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Did I mention that he’s a Republican<\/span><\/b>?<\/p>\n

While I am not a fan of of the governor or many of his policies<\/a>, he is not the kind of batsh%$ insane Australopithecine of many other (Scott Walker, Rick Scott, Paul LePage, Bruce Rauner, Sam Brownback, Matt Bevin, Rick Snyder, Pat McCrory,Greg Abbott, etc.) Republican governors.<\/p>\n

Credit where credit is due.  He did the right thing.  <\/p>\n

*<\/sup>Full disclosure, when we had problems with health insurance exchange, we called our state senator, and we ended getting a call from Hogan’s office, where a staffer fixed the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He just jammed up the useless Baltimore Executive to force him to install air-conditioning before the start of the next school year instead of waiting for at least 3 years, and now he going to sign into a law a bill that provides free birth control to Marylanders: Advocates say a new Maryland law will …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1046,1045,1020,1071,978,1122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-insurance","category-legislation","category-maryland","category-politics","category-reproductive-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}