Hannity Blasts Insurance Coverage For Birth Control, Defends Viagra

Wingnuts • August 2011 • Views: 2,775

There are so many things I could say right now, and all of them would get me banned from LGF. Hannity is a miserable little weasel, and a sexist jerk.

From ThinkProgress:

Piling on to the conservative apoplexia over the Obama administration’s recent ruling that insurance companies should cover birth control without co-pays, Fox News host Sean Hannity slammed the policy last night for encouraging ‘screwing around,’ but defended coverage of Viagra. Taking a bold stance again reason, Hannity said, ‘I don’t care about the scientists’ who recommended the move and insisted that the birth control is ‘not a women’s health issue.’ Asked how he felt about insurance companies covering male enhancement medication, Hannity strongly defended the practice, saying, ‘That is a medical problem!’ Watch excerpts from the segment:

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jaunte Fri, Aug 5, 2011 8:53:34am

Asked how he felt about insurance companies covering male enhancement medication, Hannity strongly defended the practice, saying, "That is a medical problem [directly affecting my "Hannitization!]"

Lidane Fri, Aug 5, 2011 8:56:30am

re: #1 jaunte

I also love his contention that a man being unable to get it up is a medical problem, but that birth control isn't a women's health issue. WTF.

theheat Fri, Aug 5, 2011 10:01:16am

If we're gonna keep the womens knocked up we gots to be able to get it up. Hail Viagra! The future of America depends on more white babies!

Interesting Times Fri, Aug 5, 2011 10:19:48am

Does Hannity have female fans? If so, they're either wannabe Aunt Lydias or complete and utter morons.

(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Fri, Aug 5, 2011 10:35:36am

Calling him a douchebag would be too kind.

HappyWarrior Fri, Aug 5, 2011 10:45:55am

Birth control for women isn't important but Sean's little wood is an urgent issue people :).

simoom Fri, Aug 5, 2011 11:22:05am

Yeah, the last bit is bizarre. Something like, 'You can abstain from sex so birth control isn't a necessity.' Obviously the same argument directly applies to Viagra, but the panel didn't really react.

Bulworth Fri, Aug 5, 2011 12:23:31pm

Taking a bold stance again reason

The Faux News mission statement.

Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, Aug 5, 2011 12:54:15pm

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Aug 5, 2011 12:55:33pm

Making love with your spouse is a privilege, not a right! Unless what's preventing you from making love with your spouse is not the fear of getting her pregnant at a bad time in your life, but your own inability to get it up, in which case it's a right again.

This makes perfect sense to ME.

lostlakehiker Fri, Aug 5, 2011 1:37:52pm

re: #10 SanFranciscoZionist

Making love with your spouse is a privilege, not a right! Unless what's preventing you from making love with your spouse is not the fear of getting her pregnant at a bad time in your life, but your own inability to get it up, in which case it's a right again.

This makes perfect sense to ME.

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What gets me is the notion that all of us have a right to free anything. When you pay a copay, it makes you at least a little bit inclined to economize on the use of whatever it is you're getting. This would apply to medical services as well as to electricity or water or food.

Most of us have some income of our own, and need not depend on charity. Most of us who must rely on charity can still kick in and cover some fraction of our own needs.

A good health system would have stiff copays for Viagra, so as to prevent the conception that the drug comes free.

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I've come across reports that usage of contraceptives when there's a copay, be it however small, goes down sharply. Since there are wider implications to pregnancies-at-a-bad-time, maybe contraceptive coverage should forget about the copay. So Hannity is either all wrong, or wrong about which thing should come only at a price.

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