CNS News is reporting today that the healthcare reform bill recently passed by Congress does use taxpayer money to fund abortions. If you remember, we taxpayers were assured that that was not the case and an executive order was signed that was supposed to prevent the use of taxpayer money to fund abortions. Well, I guess that was another healthcare lie.
The article explains:
"(House Republical Leader) Boehner and other Republicans point to reports that the Health and Human Services Department is giving Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new high-risk insurance pool that will cover any abortion that is legal in the state."
Regardless of how you feel about abortion, the point is that the American people were lied to by the people in Washington, D. C., that we sent there to represent us. Who do they represent?
The article concludes:
"Even before it's fully implemented, the Democrats' health care plan "is already being exposed as a high-taxing, poorly thought-out, and taxpayer-funding-of-abortion monstrosity," (Tom) McClusky (senior vice president of the Family Research Council's political action arm) said.
"Republican leader Boehner says House Republicans would codify the Hyde amendment, thus prohibiting all authorized and appropriated federal funds from being used to pay for abortion. Under the Republican plan, any health plan that includes abortion coverage would not receive federal funds."
If it took lies to pass this bill (about its cost, whether people would be able to keep their coverage, the impact on senior citizens, and abortion coverage), it needs to be repealed and replaced with something the Obama Administration and Congress can tell the truth about (maybe Congress and the Obama Administration need to be replaced with people who can tell the truth!).
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