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(4:30 p.m. update — the House has passed this legislation)
By Matt Murphy
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
The early October newspaper reports highlighted the same point over and over again. A compromise had been reached on the question about contraceptive health insurance coverage in Massachusetts in the event that national Obamacare policy was reformed or repealed.
The word "compromise" usually implies that opposing sides make concessions to one another in order to bridge a significant divide. In this case, that proved unnecessary because no divide ever existed. All of the parties to the arrangement toed the same line about making contraceptive prescriptions available at Massachusetts pharmacies without the routine co-pay usually collected from the insured person. Or as the mainstream media and liberal advocacy groups framed it, "for free." Of course, "for free" really means that someone else is picking up the tab. In this case, it's everyone else who pays for health insurance.