Follow The Committee On Healthcare--Don't Believe What You Are Being Told!

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Ed Morrissey at Hot Air posted an article yesterday about some of the votes that have been taken in the Senate Finance Committee as the Committeee marks up the Baucus bill on healthcare reform.    It's interesting to look at the amendments that have been voted down in relation to what we are being told about what is in the healthcare bill.

According to the article:

"Senate Finance Committee Democrats rejected a proposed a requirement that immigrants prove their identity with photo identification when signing up for health insurance or tax credits under healthcare reform.

"Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that current law and the healthcare bill under consideration are too lax and leave the door open to illegal immigrants defrauding the government using false or stolen identities to obtain benefits.

"Grassley's amendment was beaten back 10-13 on a party-line vote."

The Democrats are claiming that illegal immigrants will not be covered under the healthcare reform bill, yet they are unwilling to put an identity requirement in the bill. 

The article goes on:

"The Senate Finance Committee rejected an amendment to its healthcare bill Wednesday that would have required women to purchase a separate, supplemental insurance plan to cover abortion services.

"Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) proposed the amendment with the goal of making existing laws against federal money being used to pay for abortions, and the language in the healthcare bill, ironclad.

"All I'm asking -- my gosh -- is for specific language in the bill that prohibits federal dollars from being used to fund abortions," Hatch said. ...

"Democrats on the committee, along with pro-abortion-rights Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine) rejected Hatch's argument, saying it would be unfair to require women to purchase separate insurance coverage for abortion services. Such a requirement, Snowe said, would raise privacy issues by asking women to anticipate their need for abortion coverage."

Why are pro-abortion people objecting to language that excludes abortions being paid for by government healthcare plans--because they know abortion will be covered in the plan.

What we are being told about the current healthcare bill is not true.  It will cover illegal immigrants and it will cover abortion.  Please keep in mind that anyone who goes to an emergency room for medical care will be treated under current healthcare laws.  Healthcare is available to anyone who is in the country now--whether they are here legally or illegally.  The discussion now is whether to provide illegals with health insurance paid for by American taxpayers. 

The bill that is being debated now is not a move forward, it is the creation of a giant government bureaucracy that all of us will regret in the very near future.

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