RNC Employee Health Insurance Plan Covers Abortion

[lame54]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/12/rnc-abortion-health-plan/

RNC employee health insurance plan covers abortion.
Last week, 176 House Republicans joined with 64 Democrats in voting for the so-called Stupak amendment, which “could effectively stop many employer-provided health insurance plans from covering abortions for tens of millions of Americans” and restrict any private plan in the insurance exchange from offering abortion coverage. However, Politico reports today that the RNC’s own employee health care plan covers elective abortion — “a procedure the party’s own platform calls ‘a fundamental assault on innocent human life’”:

Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents for the company said that the RNC’s policy covers elective abortion.

Informed of the coverage, RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho told POLITICO that the policy pre-dates the tenure of current RNC Chairman Michael Steele.

“The current policy has been in effect since 1991, and we are taking steps to address the issue,” Gitcho said. <...>

According to several Cigna employees, the insurer offers its customers the opportunity to opt out of abortion coverage — and the RNC did not choose to opt out.

Recently it was also revealed that the health insurance plan used by the right-wing, anti-choice organization Focus on the Family also covered “abortion services.” http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/10/28/does-focus-on-the-family-fund-abortions/

[Ian David]

1. They canceled their policies yesterday after the story broke.

RNC Cancels Cigna Plan They've Had Since 1991 - It Covered Abortions
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7005252

[Sedona]

2. so what happens to all those with pre existing conditions?

who were covered under the first plan?

I think they might have screwed themselves between a rock and a hard place to prove a point.


:rofl:

[Ian David]

3. I sure fucking hope so. n/t

[amerstates]

4. Well, noce job. Now women that may NEED an abortion for medical reasons and work for GOP

May have to pay for their own. The policy was in effect, from what I understand, because the RNC was uncomfortable knowing not all GOP are 100% against abortion and it would not be right to take it away from those few in the party.

[UTUSN]

5. K&R #4 n/t