Rachel (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} roozle) wrote,@ 2009-09-29 23:57:00 |
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This is something I was dreading
I expected access to abortion to be a giant fight if we got single payer health insurance, but I lost sight of how it might play out with private insurance plans getting more funding support.
From the New York Times:
Abortion opponents in both the House and the Senate are seeking to block the millions of middle- and lower-income people who might receive federal insurance subsidies to help them buy health coverage from using the money on plans that cover abortion. And the abortion opponents are getting enough support from moderate Democrats that both sides say the outcome is too close to call. Opponents of abortion cite as precedent a 30-year-old ban on the use of taxpayer money to pay for elective abortions.
Abortion-rights supporters say such a restriction would all but eliminate from the marketplace private plans that cover the procedure, pushing women who have such coverage to give it up. Nearly half of those with employer-sponsored health plans now have policies that cover abortion, according to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The entire article is here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/healt
It looks like the momentum is on the side of the abortion opponents, unfortunately. The Democrats have such a fragile chance to get health reform passed at all that women's reproductive choice may well get sacrificed in the effort.
BTW, if this enrages you and you can do so, this is a good moment to donate to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.o
I expected access to abortion to be a giant fight if we got single payer health insurance, but I lost sight of how it might play out with private insurance plans getting more funding support.
From the New York Times:
Abortion opponents in both the House and the Senate are seeking to block the millions of middle- and lower-income people who might receive federal insurance subsidies to help them buy health coverage from using the money on plans that cover abortion. And the abortion opponents are getting enough support from moderate Democrats that both sides say the outcome is too close to call. Opponents of abortion cite as precedent a 30-year-old ban on the use of taxpayer money to pay for elective abortions.
Abortion-rights supporters say such a restriction would all but eliminate from the marketplace private plans that cover the procedure, pushing women who have such coverage to give it up. Nearly half of those with employer-sponsored health plans now have policies that cover abortion, according to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The entire article is here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/healt
It looks like the momentum is on the side of the abortion opponents, unfortunately. The Democrats have such a fragile chance to get health reform passed at all that women's reproductive choice may well get sacrificed in the effort.
BTW, if this enrages you and you can do so, this is a good moment to donate to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.o
