[DOWNLOAD] "Insurance Coverage of Abortion: The Battle to Date and the Battle to Come" by Guttmacher Policy Review # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Insurance Coverage of Abortion: The Battle to Date and the Battle to Come
- Author : Guttmacher Policy Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Family & Relationships,Books,Nonfiction,Professional & Technical,Law,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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After months of stalemate, charges, countercharges and finally a resolution that failed to satisfy partisans on either side of the abortion debate, the fight in Congress over whether and to what extent abortion coverage would be allowed under the new health care reform law appeared to end with the president's signing of the bill on March 23. Almost as soon as the ink had dried, however, abortion foes started agitating to revive the debate--and to broaden it. Antiabortion leaders insist that under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the final compromise language--a meticulously designed set of rules to segregate premium payments so that no federal funds will go toward paying claims for abortion--is still tantamount to federal funding of abortion. Based on the premise that even the remotest government connection to abortion is the same as supporting it, they have thrown down the gauntlet, unveiling a radical agenda that would ban abortion coverage in any health insurance plan that receives any government subsidy, whether direct or indirect. The targets run the gamut from Medicaid to typical employment-based insurance plans that are treated preferentially under the U.S. tax code.