Health Care Bill will Pay for Abortions with Taxpayer Money!
Some very disturbing news is leaking out about the Democrat sponsored health care bill being circulated through Congress. Apparently a last minute Amendment from Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) requires health providers (including the government providers and local community health providers) to include ‘preventative care services’ for women. (i.e. liberal code for Abortions!)
Julius Chen of the Heritage foundation reports below…
After 13 days of intense debate, the Senate HELP Committee just finished work on the Senate bill (The Affordable Health Choices Act) and reported it to the full Senate for consideration. During the Committee consideration of the bill, there were hundreds of amendments, dealing with topics ranging from abortions to funding jungle gyms. Much of the internal Committee debate received little attention in the major media. But the Committee’s decisions, if the Senate bill is enacted into law, will affect every American. Consider some of the key decisions:
Covering Abortion. (Mikulski Amendment #201 ) Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) offered an amendment that would require health insurers to include “essential community providers” in their networks. They would provide “preventive care services” for women. These entities include providers like Planned Parenthood clinics, which perform abortions. Few Americans would be comfortable knowing that federal dollars would be funding abortions. In effect, this policy is directly contrary to previous congressional funding restrictions on abortion payment, such as the Hyde Amendment. Republican Senators’ attempts to exclude abortions from the bill failed. Based on this amendment, taxpayer dollars used to subsidize insurance for a low-income citizen, regardless of how he or she feels about abortion, can also be spent on an abortion obtained by someone else in the same insurance network. Moreover, under the Senate Committee bill, the federal government would determine the standard benefits that an insurance plan must include in order to exist on the market. In effect, as a result of the Mikulski amendment, all health plans would have to cover abortion services.
And Human Events reported the following from Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) below…
“Unless amended, …[the current] bill seeks to mandate abortion coverage for nearly every insurance plan in America,” Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) said Tuesday. “Every American will be forced to pay through these services, whether through premiums or tax rates.”
Basically, as Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) put it, if you pay premiums or taxes, you’ll be funding abortion. Smith also said the language of the bill as it stands would pre-empt state laws (such as parental notification).
So, how do you feel about your hard earned tax dollars going to fund millions of US abortions? I’m sure not happy about it and plan to write my ‘no good’ Congressman immediately.
The atrocity of this bill is beyond apparent. For liberals, it’s not good enough that the Supreme Court has made Abortion legal in this country and now millions of babies are dead because of it. We all now must fund these murders from our pocket books, whether we like it or not.
What’s even worse is that under the Senate Committee bill, due to Sen. Mikulski’s Amendment, the federal government would require all health care plans to cover abortion services! This of course is designed to make it as easy as possible for a women to chose to end her child’s life, without any counseling, ultrasounds, etc. (It certainly seems that the liberal Democrats don’t want anyone to get in the way of stopping the baby killing factory they’ve created in Roe vs. Wade)
And you can guess what the next step will likely be with left wing liberals in power: Requiring Doctors to perform abortions whether they like it or not! It is not a far stretch to go from requiring taxpayers to pay for these atrocities, to requiring Doctors to perform them. (I wouldn’t be surprised if they had a Amendment worked up already…)
This health care bill must be stopped at all costs. It will be terrible for our health care industry, will by no means lower our health care costs, and will greatly damage our liberty!
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