Sorry, Bart Stupak -- the feds already subsidize abortion

[Maraya1969]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/03/sorry_bart_stupak_--_the_feds.html


By Matt Miller

Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak (D) threatened Thursday to block health care reform (again) because it might allow federal money to subsidize abortion. Which has Democratic leaders cooking up Rube Goldberg-like schemes to supposedly assure that any abortions would be funded only out of the premium dollars people paid themselves for coverage in new insurance exchanges, not via any federal subsidy. But this entire debate is ridiculous, because the feds already subsidize abortions massively, via the giant tax subsidy for employer-provided care. Today the feds devote at least $250 billion a year to subsidizing employer-based coverage, a subsidy that skews incentives horribly (but which big business and big labor wouldn’t let the politicians touch this year). A Guttmacher Institute study says that 87 percent of typical employer plans cover abortion, and a Kaiser study found that 46 percent of covered workers had abortion coverage.

[brewens]

1. How about Barts insurance? Does that cover abortion? n/t

[Maraya1969]

2. Good Question!!!!!!!!!!! Someone from his district ask him? He has the federal

health insurance that they all have probably.

[saigon68]

3. Bart + a north woods TOOL of these Criminals