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Big Government bans private insurance coverage of medical procedures!

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Just what we need. More Big Government interference into people's lives. Big Government should not be allowed to restrict the people's privately contracted medical coverage. If the people want to pay the premiums, and the insurance companies want to offer the coverage, then Big Government should not stand in the way!

Abortion foes capitalize on health care law

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press Writer Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar, Associated Press Writer – 16 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Abortion opponents fought passage of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul to the bitter end, and now that it's the law, they're using it to limit coverage by private insurers.

An obscure part of the law allows states to restrict abortion coverage by private plans operating in new insurance markets. Capitalizing on that language, abortion foes have succeeded in passing bans that, in some cases, go beyond federal statutes.

"We don't consider elective abortion to be health care, so we don't think it's a bad thing for fewer private insurance companies to cover it," said Mary Harned, attorney for Americans United for Life, a national organization that wrote a model law for the states.

Abortion rights supporters are dismayed.

"Implementation of this reform should be about increasing access to health care and increasing choices, not taking them away," said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., a member of the Senate leadership. "Health care reform is not an excuse to take rights away from women."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_overhaul_abortion
 
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