Comments on: grown-ups… http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2009/11/09/grown-ups/ All Mickey, All the Time Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:44:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ralph Roughton http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2009/11/09/grown-ups/#comment-154641 Ralph Roughton Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:38:57 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/?p=3636#comment-154641 The difficult point will be that the amended House bill seems to say that subsidies that will be provided for people who need help buying private health insurance plans cannot go to any plan that covers abortion. What about those who already have a plan that does cover it; does that mean that those can't be subsidized? Still, if that's the worst hurdle they have to figure out, it should be pretty easy to do. The difficult point will be that the amended House bill seems to say that subsidies that will be provided for people who need help buying private health insurance plans cannot go to any plan that covers abortion. What about those who already have a plan that does cover it; does that mean that those can’t be subsidized?

Still, if that’s the worst hurdle they have to figure out, it should be pretty easy to do.

]]> By: Ralph Roughton http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2009/11/09/grown-ups/#comment-154638 Ralph Roughton Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:34:45 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/?p=3636#comment-154638 I think Obama has it right: this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill. He does not want to use this to change the status quo vis a vis federal dollars going for abortions -- so it should not be used either to provide funding for abortions that does not currently exist; nor does he want it to remove coverage in private plans that people already have. That seems to me the only sensible position. They should be able to work out a compromise based on those principles that everyone can live with. I think Obama has it right: this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill. He does not want to use this to change the status quo vis a vis federal dollars going for abortions — so it should not be used either to provide funding for abortions that does not currently exist; nor does he want it to remove coverage in private plans that people already have.

That seems to me the only sensible position. They should be able to work out a compromise based on those principles that everyone can live with.

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