HHS Ruling: Abortion $$$ Pool To Be Funded by Exchange Purchasers.

[AllenChicago]

When the final Health Insurance Exchange Rule was issued earlier this week, there was a $1.00 per month premium surcharge included. This $1.00 per month will be used to build up a pool of funds to pay for abortions. So, for example, if you're a Pastor who buys an Exchange policy, you will unwittingly be helping to pay for the murder of unborn babies.

Story: http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/12/obama-admin-finalizes-rules-1-abortions-in-obamacare/

By "sneaking" this fee into the Exchange Rule, it eluded most of the mainstream media. Otherwise the outrage would dwarf what the Contraception Controversy generated. This is just one of many suprises that will surface as the various phases of this 2,000 page Affordable Care Act monstrosity are implemented.
-Allen

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

Not Ohio...Unless this changes things.

Ohio Health Insurance Exchange Will Not Cover Abortion

 

[Josh]

Oh government.

 

[shepnerd]

When the final Health Insurance Exchange Rule was issued earlier this week, there was a $1.00 per month premium surcharge included. This $1.00 per month will be used to build up a pool of funds to pay for abortions. So, for example, if you're a Pastor who buys an Exchange policy, you will unwittingly be helping to pay for the murder of unborn babies.

Story: http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/12/obama-admin-finalizes-rules-1-abortions-in-obamacare/

By "sneaking" this fee into the Exchange Rule, it eluded most of the mainstream media. Otherwise the outrage would dwarf what the Contraception Controversy generated. This is just one of many suprises that will surface as the various phases of this 2,000 page Affordable Care Act monstrosity are implemented.
-Allen

I like this line the best: "Furthermore, insurance plans may only advertise the total cost of the premiums without disclosing that enrollees will be charged a $1 per month fee to pay directly subsidize abortions."

 

[sdmillar]

Here is a crazy idea...

Carriers / Exchanges could offer an option for customers to pay for abortion coverage. It's not going to be only a $1 per month that way, but those that do not want the coverage or find it objectionable to pay for such a procedure, then do not have to pay for it. I know that idea would get shot down by the administration but is that not how the free market would take care of it?

If you want to have coverage for something that you are concerned you may need, buy the coverage that covers it. Making someone that, because of their religious beliefs, thinks abortion is immoral should not have to pay for abortions through a "surcharge" that they can not decline.

 

[Josh]

Here is a crazy idea...

Carriers / Exchanges could offer an option for customers to pay for abortion coverage. It's not going to be only a $1 per month that way, but those that do not want the coverage or find it objectionable to pay for such a procedure, then do not have to pay for it. I know that idea would get shot down by the administration but is that not how the free market would take care of it?

If you want to have coverage for something that you are concerned you may need, buy the coverage that covers it. Making someone that, because of their religious beliefs, thinks abortion is immoral should not have to pay for abortions through a "surcharge" that they can not decline.

Not that I disagree with you, but how is this much different than paying taxes and having the government invade sovereign countries and bomb children? There are plenty of Americans that strongly object to war for religious reasons, yet they're not able to opt out of paying for those services.

 

[AllenChicago]

As it always is with Government, what's supposed to be 4 choices of Exchange plans (Platinum/Gold/Silver/Bronze), will balloon into 7 to 10, or so, sub-sets of plans underneath each of those four catagories.

1) Platinum With Abortion and With Birth Control Coverage
1A) Platinum With Abortion and Without Birth Control
1Aa) Platinum With Birth Control and Without Abortion
1AAa) Platinum Without Birth Control and Without Abortion
1Aaa) Platinum With Abortion/Birth Control /Euthanasia
1Aaaa) State and Local Mandated Options from here on down...

Actually, the more complicated it becomes, the more people will need AGENTS to help them understand and make a decision. If there were such a thing as an Agent Union, we could force the GOV to pay us lifetime level commissions in return for our expert help with making the Exchanges a success.
-Allen

 

[AllenChicago]

Whew...this Abortion Premium Surcharge turns out to be a Mandate buried within another Mandate. Talk about convoluted back-door trickery by our government!

After digging DEEP, I found the actual "Amicus Brief" that the Supreme Court of the United States will consider when it takes up the constitutionality of Health Care Reform, starting next week. (week of 3/26/2012) This document does a nice job of describing the Abortion Surcharge and how the SCOTUS should consider it illegal.

Link: http://www.bdfund.org/uploads/file_606.pdf

I (almost) always vote for whichever candidate is anti-abortion. Thank goodness murdering unborn babies was illegal in 1960, or my 14 year old Mother would have sent me into a bucket on the floor of some clinic.
-AC

 

[Ann H]

That's a great link, Allen. This may be PPACA's undoing, because it forces the Supreme Court to acknowledge that the "slippery slope" of requiring citizens to purchase a product has already moved into requiring citizens to purchase a product that funds elective abortions.

Whether you're for or against abortions isn't the issue here, and this may force SCOTUS to examine the issue rather than the political consequences of the issue. If the government can force us to purchase a product then the slippery slope has already become a traveled highway. They can change that product, tweak it, manipulate it and still force us to buy it.

This document clearly shows how the ban against using Federal funds for abortion was avoided by requiring citizens to personally fund elective abortions for others despite their moral objections. It also clearly shows the secrecy in not allowing the exchanges to detail the funding nor to describe it until after the member has already paid for their plan and becomes enrolled, at which time the member is not allowed to refuse to fund abortions nor is the information ever disclosed to the member again. And HHS thinks insurance companies need to be clearer in their sales materials??????

 

[AllenChicago]

Ann, THANK-YOU for not only providing your insight on this Abortion Surcharge, but for also summarizing the Amicus Brief in a way that average people (like me!) can understand.

Appreciatively,
-Allen