Legal Commentary

Progressive Failure: The Cost Of "Health Care Reform" To Women

By Big Tent Democrat

Natasha Chart:

Under the Senate [health bill,] which makes abortion part of the initial purchasing decision, a woman's employer, male partner or parents can all potentially prevent her getting insurance coverage for it, whereas now, it usually doesn't come up because most private plans just cover it. Now, of the one in three women likely to need an abortion in her life, millions of women never have to have that conversation. Under the current wording of the health bill, that second check is the federal spousal and parental notification law that never managed to pass.

[. . .] If you still want to pass this health insurance reform bill, and I understand why so many people do, understand the cost. Somewhere, right now, he's taking her lunch money, and this bill will let him force her into motherhood, too.

This is the price of the exchanges. There was another way.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 18, 2010 (boomark / email).