Posted on July 06, 2012 |
While we take every opportunity to cheer that – thanks to the Supreme Court – women will continue to receive so many critical benefits provided by the health care law, it is also worth pointing out one way that the law hurts women: it explicitly allows states to pass laws prohibiting private insurance coverage of abortion. After the law passed, state politicians who don’t want abortion to be legal in America stepped right up, pushing bans on insurance coverage of abortion to make it unaffordable.
At this midyear point in 2012, there are now twenty states that prohibit a woman from obtaining insurance coverage for abortion either on the exchange or in any private insurance plan in the state. These laws endanger women’s health, take away access to health benefits that most women already have, and interfere with private health decisions that are best left to a woman and her family.
In other words, the provision allowing these state bans is one part of the health care law that we’d actually like to see jettisoned. All health insurance plans should provide coverage for a full range of pregnancy-related care, including abortion.
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Even pregnant women deserve the flu panoply of available care
We need to bring the AMA in on the dangers of forcing and withholding health care from patients just because they are women or pregnant women. Did you know FDA prohibits promoting ultrasound for the "baby pictures" states are requiring before abortions, because the risks outweigh the benefits? We need to educate ignorant voters that these procedures are centuries-old, reliable, necessary procedures. We need to demonstrate what happens when these pro-fetus, anti-child anti-women can dictate health care - my neighbor and her baby DIED when her conservative hospital and wacko judge required her to have a cesarean that turned into a forced abortion as brutal as the Chinese one of Feng Jianmei that made the news this week: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_A.C.
Abortion and the Affordable Care Act
What state lawmakers who oppose abortion seem to forget is when women don't have affordable access to safe and legal abortion, they will turn to back alley and kitchen table abortions in an effort to control the number of children they will bear and raise, leading to maternal deaths in the thousands every year. Or maybe the lawmakers remember but just don't care and are pandering to their 'base' for re-election. In which case, the deaths of thousands of women will be on their hands.
Abortion
This blog says: "These laws endanger women’s health, take away access to health benefits that most women already have, and interfere with private health decisions that are best left to a woman and her family."
All of that is a complete lie. They do not endanger a woman's health. If a woman's health is truly endangered by something such as an ectopic pregnancy these laws do not prevent her from getting the medical care she nees. These laws do not prevent a woman from getting an abortion, they just prevent other citizens from being forced to pay for it.
No.
It bars private insurance (you know, the insurance that people pay for, unlike that imaginary insurance you think gets fueled by everyone except pro-choicers) from letting women get abortions under their policies, too.
new law
So you see it was not about costing these states money, its always been about how they want to tell you how you should live your lives according to their beliefs.
HIPPA complaints
When submitting complaints re: HIPPA - there should be NO exemptions to privacy and confidentiality requirements based on being a Federal Aid recipients... These laws are supposed to protect us ALL and when the offending parties know that HHS/OCR will not process complaints for Federal aid clients.... they have a nasty habit of treating them with less professionalism, dignity, or respect. Because, essentially you tell them they don't have to. Your in-action in protecting your own clients sends a message to the World that we are worth less. You protect civil rights ,,, just not "ours" !!!!!
FYI
I'm still here... not done fighting and when I win,,, I will be happy to donate to these funding crisis... cause this is some Grade A, USDA .......BULLSHIT!!! :P3
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