The Booby Prize

by digby


I'm on the road and only have time for some quick takes, but I notice that Tweety is flogging the abortion and health care issue and I continue to think that access is likely going to end up being restricted even more by health care reform. It would be quite a bitter, ironic pill for some of the most ardent advocates for reform --- and some of the people who need it the most.

The argument seems to be that since money is fungible, any insurance company that has anything at all to do with government can't pay for abortions under the Hyde Amendment. Under these proposed exchanges, that could mean pretty much all of them. There was a ton of blather about "conscience" clauses and the like during the committee hearings and I feel fairly confident that this will be an issue they throw to the conservatives. Nothing like beating up the wimmin folk to make those people happy.


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