O’Reilly Blames Women’s Health Care ‘Breast Feeding Stuff’ For High Unemployment

[Donnachaidh]

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/08/03/286616/oreilly-blames-womens-health-care-breast-feeding-stuff-for-high-unemployment/

Fox host Bill O’Reilly has worked himself into a lather over the Obama administration’s recent decision to require new health insurance plans to cover birth control without co-pays. Last week he declared that women don’t deserve government subsidized birth control because they’re too “blasted out of their minds” during sex to use it. Yesterday during an interview with Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), O’Reilly went a step further in his tirade against women’s health care and said it was the reason businesses aren’t hiring:

O’REILLY: Now the federal government is ordering the health insurance companies to pay for all breast feeding stuff, all female birth control stuff, all preventative measures for doctors for ladies that go in. What do you think that’s gonna do? That’s going to inhibit hiring even more!

KUCINICH: Frankly, we ought to be very concerned about women’s health care.

O’REILLY: I am concerned, but they’re not going to expand and hire if they have to pay higher health care premiums for workers! Businesses aren’t going to do it…You can’t have both. You can’t have a welfare state and a robust capitalist system.

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[HockeyMom]

1. Maybe HE is too blasted during sex to use a condom

or maybe he follows the Catholic Church rules on NO BIRTH CONTROL at all? Any rate rate, women don't take BC pills DURING sex. Women can take it any time of the day, Billy Boy. Just goes to show how ignorant he is regarding BC.

Incidentially, my BC was convered (no copay either) by my insurance company 40 years ago. It seems to be only a very recent (religious fundies) imposing their views on insurance companies that changed that.

[gratuitous]

2. Billo's rant doesn't even make sense on its own demented terms

Wouldn't a prospective employer be happy to hire a woman that it knew wasn't going to just run out and get pregnant, costing the employer all that FMLA stuff? I know you're not supposed to listen to Billo, like you're not supposed to look directly into a solar eclipse, but gotdayum, this stuff is stupid even for Billo.

[Dawson Leery]

3. O'Reilly's old world Catholic upbringing is showing.