If Stop Signs are against my Religion, can I just ignore them?

Exciting to read that a "conscience exception" can keep me from having to pay for health insurance. I do not want to pay, when I can just go to the ER and let others pay for me medical needs. 


Only suckers pay. This is the GOP approach to health care. Just opt out. Sen Roy Blunt is proposing this. Only two GOP senators have so far declined to support the Blunt Instrument approach.


The Catholic hierarchy, used to making top down doctrinal decisions for me and other communicants, now wants to make Church Doctrine the law for everyone. So the hierarchy is supporting the Blunt Instrument approach with a twist. 


The bishops are saying, if YOU want to participate in health insurance, too bad. Your boss will make that call for you, especially for you women.


Fortunately, the Catholic institutions most involved in actually delivering health care are of a different mind.


The Catholic Health Association and Catholic Charities are willing to see some daylight at the end of the dark tunnel that the bishops have put us all in.


The Catholic Health Association and Catholic Charities, both experienced and on the front line health care offered to the public,  are willing to let the decision whether employees receive health care to be made by the employee, who will communicate directly with the insurance company which is offering coverage.


Letting individuals decide about their own health care options is of course the only sensible way to handle heath care. In this season of freak show GOP candidates, of course the sensible approach is made to appear controversial.