The Democratic House managed to pass a healthcare reform bill with more stringent restrictions on the ability of private insurance companies to cover abortion than ever before. One Republican supported it. The Democratic Senate managed to pass a healthcare reform bill with more stringent restrictions on the ability of private insurance companies to cover abortion than ever before. No Republicans supported it. And yet the Republicans supported Medicare Advantage a few years ago, where the pro-life protections were laughably weak, and where the government subsidizes abortion today.
And now, as the House and Senate try to iron out differences on abortion, Republicans have stated they will oppose any language to tighten abortion restrictions (forget for a second that the differences on abortion are second order, and that there are pros and cons of both approaches). As ABC’s The Note reports:
“All 41 Republican Senators vowed in a letter today to do everything in their power to kill Democrats’ health care legislation and vote en bloc against procedural motions Democrats want to use to fix the health reform bill passed Christmas Eve by the Senate.
This would include a scenario where the Republican Senators oppose language championed by anti-abortion rights Democrats in the House and side instead with abortion rights defenders…
‘So you’d be voting with Barbara Boxer on an abortion measure?’ a reporter asked Sen. Tom Coburn, “Yes I would. I certainly would,’ Coburn said…
When is it going to dawn on people that they are trying to kill healthcare reform only because they object to it on ideologically liberal grounds? They care about the individual mandate and the idea of solidarity in healthcare, not abortion. The enthusiasm over Scott Brown showed it clearly, this only verifies it.
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