Speaker Pelosi’s Government-Run Health Plan Will Require a Monthly Abortion Premium
Posted by GOP Leader Press Office on November 5th, 2009

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Health care reform should not be used as an opportunity to use federal funds to pay for elective abortions. Health reform should be an opportunity to protect human life - not end it.

Unfortunately, Speaker Pelosi’s 2,032-page government takeover of health care does just that.  On line 17, p. 110, section 222 under “Abortions for which Public Funding is Allowed” the Health and Human Services Secretary is given the authority to determine when abortion is allowed under the government-run plan.  The Speaker’s plan also requires that at least one insurance plan offered in the Exchange covers abortions.

What is even more alarming is that a monthly abortion premium will be charged of all enrollees in the government-run plan.  It’s right there on line 16, page 96, section 213, under “Insurance Rating Rules.”  The premium will be paid into a U.S. Treasury account - and these federal funds will be used to pay for the abortion services.

Section 213 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 plan.  The Commissioner must charge at a minimum $1 per enrollee per month.

A majority of Americans believe that health care plans should not be mandated to provide elective abortion coverage, and a majority of Americans do not believe government health care plans should include abortion coverage. Currently, federal appropriations bills include language known as the Hyde Amendment that prohibits the use of federal funds to pay for elective abortions under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, while another provision, known as the Smith Amendment, prohibits federal funding of abortion under the federal employees’ health benefits plan.

Speaker Pelosi’s 2,032-page health care monstrosity is an affront to the American people and drastically moves away from current policy.  The American people deserve more from their government than being forced to pay for abortion.

House Republicans are offering a common-sense, responsible solution that would reduce health care costs and expand access while protecting the dignity of all human life. The Republican plan, available at HealthCare.GOP.gov, would codify the Hyde Amendment and prohibit all authorized and appropriated federal funds from being used to pay for abortion. And under the Republican plan, any health plan that includes abortion coverage may not receive federal funds.


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Considering the size of the bill; there will be all sorts of things that pop up in it.

This bill needs to be stopped because if they do pass it, and it becomes law; they will be forcing people into a corner.

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Ha ha ha.  Let them do that for a few generations and they will have essentially killed their entire voting base.

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Ha ha ha.  Let them do that for a few generations and they will have essentially killed their entire voting base.

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They have been doing it for a few generations already......




-K

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Tens of thousands in DC! Live feed from DC.
http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html

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Heck, if abortion coverage only costs me $/month I'm getting it!  




Does that cover literally me or, like um, anything I might cause?

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Put a fork in this crap, it's done! There's already enough opposition amongst the Blue Dogs to keep this from becoming a reality, add to it the CBO's numbers and the fact it's going to pay for abortions, yeah...this crap is done, time to flush it and Pelosi down the shitter!

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I disagree.  I think this bill simply articulates, in legal language, the corner in which we already find ourselves.

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Yep, it doesn't seem to be working so far.