{"id":45319,"date":"2014-09-17T20:01:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T02:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/hey-lets-expand-into-new-areas-that-we-wont-be-willing-to-cover.html"},"modified":"2014-09-18T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T15:55:00","slug":"hey-lets-expand-into-new-areas-that-we-wont-be-willing-to-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/hey-lets-expand-into-new-areas-that-we-wont-be-willing-to-cover.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Hey, let&#039;s expand into new areas that we won&#039;t be willing to cover&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One might feel some sympathy for people who have a house next to which an airport is built feeling like, <i>whoa, hey, this isn&#39;t what we bargained for.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>One feels less sympathy for people who move next to an existing airport, then kvetch about the noise.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, one has to wonder how much sympathy to give to  Catholic insurance companies expanding into new markets, then struggling to adapt to (or deciding to fight) ACA mandates regarding contraceptive coverage. <\/p>\n<p>Or, as Super-Chicken used to say, &quot;Well, Fred, you knew this job was dangerous when you took it.&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2014\/09\/17\/349237702\/how-catholic-insurance-companies-outsource-contraceptive-coverage'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/9iRqP4tw4H3JDl6z-wCXrML9XAjKMP8aLab0aDjTAnyDk71ULVihdpYuBK6bEk0Tl1sgBALw8-oMxd20M1qCxXyyZlb5kzmgdBwoIWx2e6jg7_6J5VIOtlxaiWHdDP_A1-Pr1k-ab_m4-taqX2ROjh8dvyDV_z2IVw=w506-h303' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2014\/09\/17\/349237702\/how-catholic-insurance-companies-outsource-contraceptive-coverage'>How Catholic Insurance Companies Outsource Contraceptive Coverage<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFor years Catholic health plans have been arranging for independent insurance firms to provide contraceptive coverage to their enrollees.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/TdzpQ21RF5A'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One might feel some sympathy for people who have a house next to which an airport is built feeling like, whoa, hey, this isn&#39;t what we bargained for. One feels less sympathy for people who move next to an existing airport, then kvetch about the noise. Similarly, one has to wonder how much sympathy to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/hey-lets-expand-into-new-areas-that-we-wont-be-willing-to-cover.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;Hey, let&#039;s expand into new areas that we won&#039;t be willing to cover&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,109,134,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-church-state","category-health-care","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5434,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/11\/sympathy.html","url_meta":{"origin":45319,"position":0},"title":"Sympathy","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 11-Mar-04 5:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Many Americans were touched by the outpouring of sympathy by folks around the world after 9\/11. 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