Wal-Mart cuts some part-time health benefits

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11. Would there have to be a "religious exemption" to that?

The gist of the Hobby Lobby decision was that the employer was not required to provide insurance for things that the bosses found "sinful" or against their religion. If employer health insurance policies go the way of Radio Shack warranties, and we all pay into a public pool providing the same quality of care, would those religious exemptions then come under the Hyde Amendment, which as of now singles out abortion specifically as something tax dollars are prohibited from funding? Wouldn't that mean, then, that the only people who could afford things that XYZ religious group cried foul about (Scientologists with mental-health care, Christians with... pretty much everything else), would be people who could afford to purchase it out-of-pocket?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the Hyde Amendment mean that if your sole health insurance provider is Medicaid, you cannot get an abortion (unless you can afford one OOP, and chances are if you're on Medicaid you probably can't), because your health insurance is taxpayer-funded? What would the ridiculous religious exemptions mean if we had single-payer? What about AIDS medications, which the evangelicals have been whining about for years? Would this country really be so callous as to let people die so as not to brush up against the precious First Amendment?