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Sep. 29th, 2013
Before the enactment of the ACA, only five states had laws restricting insurance coverage of abortion: Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, North Dakota and Oklahoma. The same Republican Tea Partiers who want to end Obamacare, saw creating new restrictions to abortion services (via the federally mandated health care exchanges) as the silver lining in their cloud.
Since 2010, Idaho, Missouri and Oklahoma passed additional laws and some states enacted new ones. (8) states forbid all private health insurance companies (as well as state healthcare exchanges) from covering abortion, while the rest limit the rule to just their state insurance exchanges.
Abortion-rights advocates say most health insurance today already covers elective abortion, and a Huffington Post review of the health insurance exchanges suggests that won’t change under Obamacare. However, it may increasingly prove that all abortion services will have to be covered via a rider, and comprehensive coverage will no longer include abortion services, thereby punishing women.
Public Safety - Federal occupational safety and health inspectors would likely stop workplace inspections
Vets - Vets appealing disability claims would have to wait
Children - Head Start programs would be affected immediately
Food Safety - The Food and Drug Administration would suspend most routine safety inspections
Women, Infants, Children - WIC, shut down. The program provides supplemental food, health care referrals and nutrition education for pregnant women, mothers and their children.
Public Health - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would be severely limited in spotting or investigating disease outbreaks.
Public Interest - All national parks would be closed, as would the Smithsonian museums, including the National Zoo in Washington.
Loans - Low-to-moderate incomes borrowers and first-time homebuyers seeking government-backed mortgages face delays.The Federal Housing Administration, wouldn’t underwrite or approve any new loans. government-backed loans to small businesses would be suspended.
Military - The military’s 1.4 million active duty personnel would stay on duty, but their paychecks would be delayed. About half of the Defense Department’s civilian employees would be furloughed.
So it’s nice to know that the Republican’s view a government shutdown as a political game, it’s not that funny to those of us outside the beltway
Vets - Vets appealing disability claims would have to wait
Children - Head Start programs would be affected immediately
Food Safety - The Food and Drug Administration would suspend most routine safety inspections
Women, Infants, Children - WIC, shut down. The program provides supplemental food, health care referrals and nutrition education for pregnant women, mothers and their children.
Public Health - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would be severely limited in spotting or investigating disease outbreaks.
Public Interest - All national parks would be closed, as would the Smithsonian museums, including the National Zoo in Washington.
Loans - Low-to-moderate incomes borrowers and first-time homebuyers seeking government-backed mortgages face delays.The Federal Housing Administration, wouldn’t underwrite or approve any new loans. government-backed loans to small businesses would be suspended.
Military - The military’s 1.4 million active duty personnel would stay on duty, but their paychecks would be delayed. About half of the Defense Department’s civilian employees would be furloughed.
So it’s nice to know that the Republican’s view a government shutdown as a political game, it’s not that funny to those of us outside the beltway
House Republicans included a so-called “conscience clause” in the government funding bill in a plan they approved early Sunday.
The House voted 231-192 on a bill that would delay much of the 2010 health care overhaul for a year. It would also repeal a tax on medical devices that helps finance the health care law.
The measure would allow employers and insurers to opt out of providing health care services that they find morally or religiously objectionable. The addition reignites the debate over a portion of the health care reform law that requires most insurers to cover women’s preventative health care, including contraception. CNN reports that the provision would allow them to opt out of coverage for the next year.
The provision was added iduring a House Rules Committee meeting on Saturday evening.
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) didn’t know Republicans had added the provision into the bill, even as the House was already debating the rule for bringing it up.
Incidentally, Republicans had already pressured the Obama adminstration in 2010 to extend federal abortion restrictions into the Affordable Healthcare Act, leading to states with Republican-ruled legislatures to pass new restrictions on access and insurance coverage of abortion services to an all time high, going from 5 states with restrictions to 23 and counting.
The automatic spending cuts that will take effect under sequestration will already compromise programs that disproportionately impact women, including slashing $86 million from critical family planning and reproductive health services. But that’s not enough for Republican lawmakers, who want to use the upcoming budget negotiations as yet another opportunity to keep attacking women’s health:
The House voted 231-192 on a bill that would delay much of the 2010 health care overhaul for a year. It would also repeal a tax on medical devices that helps finance the health care law.
The measure would allow employers and insurers to opt out of providing health care services that they find morally or religiously objectionable. The addition reignites the debate over a portion of the health care reform law that requires most insurers to cover women’s preventative health care, including contraception. CNN reports that the provision would allow them to opt out of coverage for the next year.
The provision was added iduring a House Rules Committee meeting on Saturday evening.
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) didn’t know Republicans had added the provision into the bill, even as the House was already debating the rule for bringing it up.
Incidentally, Republicans had already pressured the Obama adminstration in 2010 to extend federal abortion restrictions into the Affordable Healthcare Act, leading to states with Republican-ruled legislatures to pass new restrictions on access and insurance coverage of abortion services to an all time high, going from 5 states with restrictions to 23 and counting.
The automatic spending cuts that will take effect under sequestration will already compromise programs that disproportionately impact women, including slashing $86 million from critical family planning and reproductive health services. But that’s not enough for Republican lawmakers, who want to use the upcoming budget negotiations as yet another opportunity to keep attacking women’s health:
