Monday, July 7, 2014

Doctors, nurses condemn Hobby Lobby ruling, call for immediate action


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/02/1311228/-Doctors-nurses-condemn-Hobby-Lobby-ruling-call-for-immediate-nbsp-action?detail=email

Doctor explaining diagnosis to her female patient. Photo taken on: July 21st, 2012

Most medical providers have basically been on the sidelines in the big reproductive healthcare fight of the modern era—abortion. Maybe because it's too politically charged for them to really engage in, since fewer and fewer providers are actually involved in providing that critical service, or it just hasn't seemed relevant to their professional lives. But now the Supreme Court has started to creep onto their territory, and they are not happy.


The 5-4 decision was immediately criticized by the American Medical Association, the American Nurses Association (PDF), the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for allowing employers to meddle in the exam room.
The decision “intrudes on the patient-physician relationship and will make it more difficult for many women to make their own personal medical decisions,” said Dr. Robert Wah, president of the AMA. “We encourage the administration to provide alternative pathways to secure coverage for patients unable to obtain these services as a result of the court's ruling.”
Each of the groups urged officials in Washington to work quickly to restore coverage options for all insured women, saying that limiting insurance coverage would force women to take additional steps or pay out of pocket for birth control—which affects low-income women in particular.

wasn't the republican side claiming ObamCares would come between you and your dr.?  once again right wing shows it knows more than doctors or women especially when it come's to their healthcare and what's best or they were just lying again and denying again it really takes those of unscrupulous characterless mindsets to impose their will when they are not of the gender of those they are trying to regulate.  so far congress and the rest of them are ignoring those who know and those who need.