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What is even more alarming is that a monthly abortion premium will be charged of all enrollees in the government-run plan. It’s right there on line 16, page 96, section 213, under “Insurance Rating Rules.” The premium will be paid into a U.S. Treasury account - and these federal funds will be used to pay for the abortion services.

Section 213 describes the process in which the Health Benefits Commissioner is to assess the monthly premiums that will be used to pay for elective abortions under the government-run plan. The Commissioner must charge at a minimum $1 per enrollee per month.

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Originally posted by Biscuit In your Grill:
No it won't.

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Originally posted by Biscuit In your Grill:
No it won't.

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Originally posted by Biscuit In your Grill:
Stop blatant dumbassery...before it's too late.

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* Allows private health insurance plans that cover elective abortion to receive government subsidies (Section 222(e)(2)) (The bill also includes the Capps provision that purports to segregate the “federal dollars” from “private dollars” that are used to pay for abortions (Sections 303(e)(2); 341(c)(3)) – but nothing alters the fact that this provision allows government dollars to go to private plans that cover abortion);
* Permits the public option to include abortion coverage (Section 222(e)(3));
* Ensures that one plan in every coverage area covers abortion (Section 303(e)(1)(A)).

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This argument is beyond misleading -- it is truly absurd. As a matter of law, and in the terminology used throughout the government, all of the funds that would be spent by the public plan would be federal funds, public funds. Rep. Capps and the others who are exerting themselves in the ludicrous exercise of attempting to label government agency spending as "private" are doing so for a transparently political purpose: To conceal the reality that H.R. 3200 would establish direct federal government funding of elective abortion by the government insurance plan, and would also result in large-scale federal subsidies for private health plans that pay for elective abortions. Both of those effects would be sharp departures from longstanding federal policy.



The Capps-Waxman Amendment explicitly authorizes the Secretary of HHS to pay for elective abortions, any abortions, under the government plan. The public plan would be a program within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), part of the federal Executive Branch, headed by the Secretary of HHS. Under the Capps-Waxman Amendment, abortion providers would send their bills to DHHS. They would receive in payment checks drawn on a federal Treasury account, which are federal funds, public funds. This would be direct federal government funding of elective abortion.

With few exceptions, funds under the control of and expended by an agency of the federal government cannot accurately be described as "private funds." For example, the funds in a citizen's bank account are private, but once he or she writes a check to the IRS to pay income taxes, the funds become federal government funds, public funds, deposited in a U.S. Treasury account. The same is true here. Once a public plan enrollee makes a "premium" payment to DHHS, the funds are no longer "private" -- they are federal government funds, as truly and completely as the funds that the government gathers from income taxes, user fees, fines, and other sources.



NRLC has issued a memorandum proving that all of the funds that would be expended by the "public option," and also all of the funds that would flow to the premium-subsidy program, would be in fact "federal funds," both as a matter of law, and in the usage of those terms by and about federal agencies across the board. The memorandum contains links to primary documents from the CBO, GAO, and the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.) It is here:
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Originally posted by echo hargo:
America is in need of a very violent enema.

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Originally posted by bama58:
Too bad Pelosi wasnt aborted