By Gary L. Bauer
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. Franciscan University in Steubenville Ohio announced that it is cancelling its
health insurance policy for students and will not offer any plan that
requires us to violate the consistent teachings of the Catholic Church on the sacredness of human life. But beyond the contraception mandate the university also cited skyrocketing costs associated with ObamaCare.
University officials said the basic $600 policy was going to double in cost in the fall and triple next year as a result of other regulations and coverage mandates. This is a perfect example of how government mandates increase costs and why ObamaCare will do nothing to make health insurance more affordable for most Americans.
In a related development the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops warned federal regulators this week that it is prepared to go to court to overturn the administrations contraception mandate. Here is an excerpt of a statement to the Department of Health and Human Services:
We are convinced that no public good is served by this unprecedented nationwide mandate and that forcing individual and institutional stakeholders to sponsor and subsidize an otherwise widely available product over their religious and moral objections serves no legitimate let alone compelling government interest.
Indeed … such coercion is a serious violation of federal statutory and constitutional guarantees of religious liberty and rights of conscience. Absent prompt congressional attention to this infringement on fundamental civil liberties we believe the only remaining recourse in light of the approaching regulatory deadlines is in the courts.
Indoctrinating Our Youth
If you needed more evidence of the left-wing bias of our institutions of higher learning consider their commencement speakers.
A new survey from Young Americas Foundation finds that just 10 of the commencement speakers at the nations top 100 universities are conservatives while 71 are liberals. Heres more:
- Of the top 35 schools only one -- Emory College -- asked a conservative to speak.
- 16 Obama Administration officials will speak this year. Obama officials have spoken 29 times at commencements during the first three years of his administration. By comparison Bush Administration officials spoke just 14 times during his eight years in office.
- 11 liberal reporters anchors and commentators were selected as speakers but not one conservative journalist will be speaking.
Wasting Your Tax Dollars
We know the $800 billion stimulus bill largely failed to stimulate the economy. A lot of your hard-earned tax dollars were wasted on boondoggles like the failed solar company Solyndra. (By the way Im sure you have heard about JP Morgans recent $2 billion loss. For those keeping score our federal government lost 400 times more!)
Heres one way the bureaucrats in Washington wasted your money. According to this local
NBC report $1.5 million of stimulus money went to study well
lets just say other kinds of stimulus failures.
