ObamaCare: Your Tax Dollars Now Fund Abortion
In the public relations push for his takeover of the American health care system, President Obama promised that those who like their insurance could keep it, premiums would decrease, and no one would lose their doctor. We know now those were all lies told repeatedly and never questioned by a media that is still looking the other way. Another promise Obama made was that ObamaCare would not fund abortions. LifeNews reports that this was also a lie:
The ObamaCare statute specifically
requires the issuers of Exchange plans that cover abortion to “collect
from each enrollee in the plan” a “separate payment” for the type of
abortions for which funding is prohibited under the Hyde Amendment
(which is all abortions other than in cases of life of the mother, rape,
or incest) and a separate payment for all other services. [42 U.S.C.
18023(b)]. These separate payments are then to be deposited into
separate accounts.
During the regulatory process, commenters
questioned HHS on how this was to be implemented, and according to HHS,
the commenters “recommended that HHS clarify . . . whether [Exchange
plan] issuers may satisfy the separate payment provision by providing
each enrollee with an itemized bill, and whether an enrollee’s coverage
would be terminated for failure to comply with the separate payment
provision.” Rather than doing so, HHS merely said that the comments
would be taken into consideration in any future guidance. [77 Fed. Reg.
18430 (March 27, 2012)].
Now, despite the clear language of the
ObamaCare statute, it appears that the separate check requirement is not
going to be enforced by the Obama Administration. Gretchen Borchelt,
director of state reproductive health policy at the National Women’s Law
Center, told the Huffington Post that “we used to talk about it as
being two checks that the consumer would have to write because of the
segregation requirements, but that’s not the way it’s being
implemented.” (Huffington Post, Sept. 3, 2013).
Likewise, a spokeswoman for Rhode
Island’s Exchange told PolitiFact Rhode Island that “the customer is not
billed a separate fee.” (Politifact, Oct. 2, 2013. The Rhode Island
Exchange will handle the billing, not the plan issuers). As PolitiFact
notes, “it turns out to be a hidden fee.”
There is nothing the media is willing to make Obama pay a political
price for. Not even repeatedly lying to millions who are about to lose
their insurance or forcing people to violate their conscience over the
abomination of abortion.
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