As you know a couple of corporations are objecting the the requirement that they provide health insurance that includes contraceptive options to their employees. The argument is that doing so forces the owners of the corporation to violate their religions beliefs.
There are a number of problems with that argument. Two immediate ones are that exceptions of that sort can't be bounded. Which religious beliefs should be protected? Should a corporation be allowed to refuse to buy insurance unless the doctors agree that only male doctors will treat male patients and only female doctors will treat female patients as some religions require? Theses sorts of objections could be elaborated forever. A different objection to the corporation's argument is that corporations don't have religious beliefs. So it is not possible to violate them. The law explicitly distinguishes between a corporation and its owners, who may have religious beliefs. Corporations are separate legal entities. They are given certain rights and protections, and are subject to certain legal requirements. Requiring a corporation to do something is not the same thing as requiring the owner of the corporation to do that thing. This (finally) leads to the question I want to ask. Let's assume that I as an individual hire 500 people to work for me. I do not incorporate; I just hire them individual to individual. Does anyone know if the law requires me to provide health insurance for them? *-- Russ Abbott* *_____________________________________________* * Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles* * Google voice: 747-*999-5105; CS Dept.: 323-343-6690 Google+: *http://GPlus.to/RussAbbott <http://GPlus.to/RussAbbott>,* * http://tinyurl.com/RussAbbott <http://tinyurl.com/RussAbbott>, or * * http://google.com/+RussAbbottCa <http://google.com/+RussAbbottCa> * * vita: *sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ *CS Wiki* <http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/> and the courses I teach * A draft of "Abstractions and Implementations <http://philpapers.org/rec/ABBAAI>" * * How the Fed can fix the economy (**2 pages)**: ssrn.com/abstract=1977688 <http://ssrn.com/abstract=1977688>* *_____________________________________________*
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