Sorry Harry, But Not 1 Red Cent for Abortion
The whole Health Care mess in DC just keeps getting worse. Late Wednesday night Harry Reid issued the Senate version of Health Care Reform. It came in at 2,074 pages. Why reforming something that over 80% of the people are happy with takes that many pages is a mystery, unless it is because that is the only way they can use smoke & mirrors to cover up a government takeover. But the real non-surprize is that our money paying for abortions is back (as if it ever really left).
According to House Republican Leader John Boehner, the Reid-Senate health care bill contains a monthly abortion premium that taxpayers will be forced to pay.
Line 7, p. 118, section 1303 under “Voluntary Choice of Coverage of Abortion Services” says that the Health and Human Services Secretary is given the authority to determine when abortion is allowed under the government-run health plan. Once again the head of HHS would have the power to require the "public option" plan to have unlimited coverage of abortion for any reason. Don't let the wording fool you in to thinking that there would be limits, esp under Sibelius who didn't meet a limit she whouldn't veto as governor of Kansas. She would require every abortion to be paid for.
Also, Reid's plan also requires that at least one insurance plan offered in the Exchange covers abortions (line 13, p. 120).
But it gets even worse. "What is even more alarming is that a monthly abortion premium will be charged of all enrollees in the government-run health plan," Boehner says. the premium is mentioned on line 11, page 122, section 1303, under “Actuarial Value of Optional Service Coverage.”
"The premium will be paid into a U.S. Treasury account – and these federal funds will be used to pay for the abortion services," he explained. The amount that will be required to pay at least $1 a month to cover the cost of abortions.
"Section 1303(a)(2)(C) describes the process in which the Health Benefits Commissioner is to assess the monthly premiums that will be used to pay for elective abortions under the government-run health plan and for those who are given an affordability credit to purchase insurance coverage that includes abortion through the Exchange. The Commissioner must charge at a minimum $1 per enrollee per month," Boehner said.
National Right to Life legislative director Douglas Johnson agrees that what Reid has produced is a huge underwriting of abortion. "Reid has rejected the bipartisan Stupak-Pitts Amendment and has substituted completely unacceptable language that would result in coverage of abortion on demand in two big new federal government programs."
He goes on to say: "Reid seeks to cover elective abortions in two big new federal health programs, but tries to conceal that unpopular reality with layers of contrived definitions and hollow bookkeeping requirements."
Attorney Mary Harned of Americans United for Life, has also examined the abortion sections of Reid's new measure. She said that it "provides for an unprecedented expansion of federally-funded abortion."
She adds: "The bill includes pro-abortion language and mirrors the false compromise Capps Amendment from the House debate — it allows the public option to include abortion coverage and provides federal subsidies for private plans which cover abortion."
Harned points out how pages 116 through 124 of Reid’s new health care bill will require a plan that covers abortion in every insurance market, allow HHS to cover abortions through the public option, & create new tax-funded subsidies to purchase private health plans that will cover abortion.
Harned & Johnson have also raised alarms about the affordability credits. & I agree with their concern Those credits are new tax-supported subsidies that will be used by those getting them to purchase private health plans, plans that directly pay for abortions. & it our taxes that will underwrite these credits.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has said he will offer an amendment to the bill similar to the Stupak amendment in the House. With the current makeup of the Senate, it is unlikely he will be able to get past a fillibuster & bring it to a vote.
Naturally Rep. Lois Capps, who created the amendment named after her in the House, is happy with the wording. She stated: "It appears that their approach closely mirrors my language which was originally included in the House bill."
Abortion is only 1 of the problems with the Senate bill, many of the concerns about end of life issues, etc that are anything but Pro-life also exist in the House & Senate versions. Those problems make it impossible for anyone who is Pro-life to support what is currently out there.
We still have a long road ahead in the battle to ensure that this current monstrosity is defeated. True health care reform does not require this massive overhaul that is a government takeover & an underwriting of abortion as well. many simpler solutions have been put out that will help those who truly need coverage & aren't getting it now have been proposed. & have been ignored by the powers that be since it doesn't let them expand their power & remake the USA into a scoialist state.
Ultimately, anything that doesn't respect life from the moment that life starts until natural death is not health reform. It is a licence to kill. & it will never have my support.
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posted by Al @ 2:09 AM
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