A Bush & Romney econ adviser compares having a baby with buying a Porsche

[DonViejo]

GOP’s newest demented crusade: War on mothers

A Bush and Romney economic adviser compares having a baby with buying a Porsche. They can’t be this dumb, can they?

JOAN WALSH

Conservatives continue to be outraged by the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that basic insurance policies cover maternity and newborn care. When Rep. Renee Ellmers, the chair of the House GOP Women’s Policy Committee, asked Kathleen Sebelius “Has a man ever delivered a baby?” she was introducing her party’s best new argument against Obamacare. Forget “death panels;” now we have “birth panels,” which force Americans to pay for the continuation of the human species whether they want to or not.

You would think the supposedly “pro-life” party would be happy to put the power of the government behind keeping pregnant women and unborn babies safe and healthy. We should never let her lack of access to prenatal and newborn care make a woman decide abortion is a better choice, right?

Wrong. In fact, the right’s campaign against maternity coverage has only gotten more strident. Just Monday morning, Harvard economist and George W. Bush Council of Economic Advisors chair Greg Mankiw argued against such coverage with the worst analogy yet:

But having children is more a choice than a random act of nature. People who drive a new Porsche pay more for car insurance than those who drive an old Chevy. We consider that fair because which car you drive is a choice. Why isn’t having children viewed in the same way?

full article
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/11/gops_newest_demented_crusade_war_on_mothers/

[raging moderate]

1. Republicon Narcissism distorts the Universe!

Of course, they should get to reproduce as much as they want, while the rest of us spend all our time and energy taking care of their superior progeny!

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Why stop there? I don't have diabetes, so I shouldn't have to pay the same

as someone who does. Or I don't have a bum heart. Or I don't have cancer. These people are so stupid they don't have a basic understanding of how insurance works!

[Mass]

3. The Republican Party is leaderless and idea less.

I wonder if there has been a time where the GOP was that lost. 40 People in the House and 5 to 10 people in the Senate block everything. Leaders are busy running for reelection and keeping their leadership position at the same time. Reince Preibus is below everything and absolutely useless.

Result, a few think tanks are giving the talking points, and the talking points are more and more hollow, like this one...

[Mass]

4. Why is it always birth and children care but not prostate surgery and other purely male issues?

[world wide wally]

5. Only rich people should have children for gosh sakes!… like duuuhhhh

[Initech]

6. Well he is right about one thing:

When you compare the hospital bills from a birth to the bill of sale for a Porsche Cayman, they cost about the same!

[geek tragedy]

7. I've seen that talking point right here at DU by men who think

that they're being punished by the ACA.