So, ultimately, the “exchange” will be a government puppet that requires private money to fund abortions (by virtue of paying premiums into this “exchange”) instead of money coming direct from the government? All they’re doing is cutting out the middle man then (.gov?), and it’s just tax dollars re-named “mandatory premiums” (and thus obsolete Stupak?)
Yes, and I think the liberals would win in the courts (given the general liberal domination of the courts and atrocious recent court decisions) on the question of whether premiums required to be paid by private parties for health insurance is not really a “tax” imposed and appropriated by government. (but in reality it is both unconstitutional and a tax)
The key for the Rats is to progressively move the policy venue from the public into Congressional back rooms and then into the bowels of a giant government regulatory agency. That is the ultimate home field advantage for them. Even in Republican administrations, government bureaucrats remain overwhelmingly leftwing, and government employees unions are arguably the ultimate inner core of what the Democrat party really is at its heart.