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Obamacare Pushes Abortion
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Jul 28, 2009 03:05am |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Michael S. Steele |
| News Date | Tuesday, July 28, 2009 09:05:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | There is much about President Obama’s government-run health care plan that should have Americans alarmed. It would make health care more expensive. It would raise taxes on families and small businesses. It would let a government bureaucrat determine what treatments patients can receive. And it could force 88 million Americans off of the private health insurance they now have.
None of that is likely the kind of change the American people expect when President Obama and Congressional Democrats talk about reforming our health care system. But it must have big-government liberals jumping with joy. It gets worse, however. Hidden deep within the over 1,000-page House Democrat health care bill is language that could require all health insurance plans to provide taxpayer-funded abortions.
Under the Democrats’ scheme, insurance plans would have to provide people an “essential benefits package.” This package would be created by the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services based on recommendations from a new federal advisory committee. As the bill is written, there is nothing that could keep federal bureaucrats from mandating that coverage of abortions be included in the “essential benefits package.” |
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