many of these states have the same exclusion. you know, you mentioned at the top that contraception is widely supported by the american people, including catholics. 50% of all americans live in states where this is already required. many of them with the same requirement as the federal government s new requirement. you know, we did talk about it. we thought it was a critical piece of protecting women s health care and we re moving forward as there s been a lot of discussion over the next year and a half by august of 2013 to work with the, not the catholic church, because they are exempted, but with catholic hospitals, other religiously-affiliated institutions where women of all faiths work and who deserve the same protection to see if we can find a way to implement the law in a way that respects their bleefs and addresses their concerns. but at the end of the day, the goal here is for women to get contraception with no out of
where we now, after three years of the most successful health care reform president we have ever had, now have more people without health insurance in this country than when george w. bush was president. and that is no fault of president obama s. that is the fault of our employer-based private health insurance system. when unemployment goes up in our system, people lose not just their jobs, they lose their health care. in other countries, they justs lose their jobs. those countries think that is bad enough. losing your job and your health care with it is an unrelenting piece of american inhumanity that will be with us forever under the new health care law. the law is frequently and always falsely described as one that will achieve universal coverage in this country.