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I’ve been in DC area now for a few years, so political dishonesty comes as no surprised to me. But the sheer audacity of the lies surrounding the current “contraception” brouhaha is above and beyond even what’s expected.

I keep putting “contraception” in quotes, because the issue really has nothing to do with contraception. To say that the uproar of the Obama administration’s mandate is in any way an objection to contraception is to say that opposing farm subsidies is an objection to eating. It’s stupid on its face.

Yet somehow the point still needs making, so I will add my voice to the chorus: Health insurance is not the same thing as access! More importantly, insurance is not offered because some government bureaucrat ordered it to be; things get insured because people don’t want to take the risk of being unable to afford something at the time they really need it. But no one is going to go bankrupt buying contraception. Confusing insurance for medical prepayment is the same fatal flaw that has made insurance so unnecessarily expensive in the first place (well, one of the flaws anyway), and that prevented the debate two years ago from looking at real solutions for our unacceptably flawed health care and insurance sectors.