Study: Stupak Amendment Will Eliminate Abortion Coverage 'Over Time For All Women'

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

Study: Stupak Amendment Will Eliminate Abortion Coverage 'Over Time For All Women'

A new study by the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services adds some expert imprimatur to what many progressives have been saying all along: The Stupak amendment to the House health care bill--which will prevent millions of women from buying health insurance policies that cover abortion--is likely to have consequences that reach far beyond its supposedly intended scope.

The report concludes that "the treatment exclusions required under the Stupak/Pitts Amendment will have an industry-wide effect, eliminating coverage of medically indicated abortions over time for all women, not only those whose coverage is derived through a health insurance exchange."

In other words, though the immediate impact of the Stupak amendment will be limited to the millions of women initially insured through a new insurance exchange, over time, as the exchanges grow, the insurance industry will scale down their abortion coverage options until they offer none at all.

"As a result, Stupak/Pitts can be expected to move the industry away from current norms of coverage for medically indicated abortions. In combination with the Hyde Amendment, Stupak/Pitts will impose a coverage exclusion for medically indicated abortions on such a widespread basis that the health benefit services industry can be expected to recalibrate product design downward across the board in order to accommodate the exclusion in selected markets."

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Talking Points Memo:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/study-stupak-amendment-will-eliminate-abortion-coverage-over-time-for-all-women.php?ref=fpblg

GWU School Of Public Health's Study Into The Effects Of The Stupak Amendment:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2009/11/gwu-school-of-public-healths-study-into-the-effects-of-the-stupak-amendment.php?page=1

[noiretextatique]

1. so, if you can pay for an abortion, it's perfectly moral

but not if government or private insurance pays for it...got it. so, the stupid amendment is really just a uterus tax...got it.

[Bobbieo]

2. How does Stupak propose taking care of the health and welfare of all these

children he wants to be born into the U.S.??

[noiretextatique]

3. he has a fairly liberal voting record

which makes this amendment even more of an abomination.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

8. religion I guess n/t

[snake in the grass]

6. That's what they call...

..."individual responsibility". It's what made this country great!

[geek tragedy]

5. A poor woman's uterus tax. Women with employer-based insurance

still get their abortions subsidized via tax exemptions.

[Tesha]

4. And that's the idea, of course. Brought to you by a "Democrat". (NT)

[ProgressOnTheMove]

7. They should definitely exclude coverage for Stupak that's for sure.

[defendandprotect]

9. k i c k

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

10. ...

[defendandprotect]

11. Let's face it, folks, we're up against Vatican and Mormon Church - wealthy opponents with

a lot of crazy religious fanatics willing to do dirty work for them --

The "god" issue has to be taken down -- !!!