Joe Biden: We ‘Screwed Up’ First Version Of Contraception Mandate

The controversial contraception mandate saga continued today as the Blunt Amendment got shot down in the Senate. Also on Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden addressed the issue when he spoke at Iowa State University. Plainly, he admitted the White House’s initial approach wasn’t all that great.

Discussing health care reform, he said:
“The conscience clause is being honored in its literal sense. What is happening now is that we have been able to provide what was hard to set up — it got screwed up in the first iteration — is that any hospital, no matter where it is, no matter who runs it — profit or nonprofit, religious based or otherwise — has to provide insurance to their employees, like everybody else does.”

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Though Biden spoke positively about the current policy. The “ultimate resolution,” he said, “is where it should have been in the first place.”

Take a look:

(H/T Politico)

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