Posted on 08/23/2014 8:35:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Health insurance companies in California may not refuse to cover the cost of abortions, state insurance officials have ruled in a reversal of policy stemming from the decision by two Catholic universities to drop elective abortions from their employee health plans.
Although the federal Affordable Care Act does not compel employers to provide workers with health insurance that includes abortion coverage, the director of California’s Department of Managed Health Care said in a letter to seven insurance companies on Friday that the state Constitution and a 1975 state law prohibits them from selling group plans that exclude the procedure. The law in question requires such plans to encompass all “medically necessary” care.
“Abortion is a basic health care service,” department director Michelle Rouillard wrote in the letter. “All health plans must treat maternity services and legal abortion neutrally.” …
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And there will surely BE one. It never was about medical care in the first place: abortions are ridiculously cheap.
Abortion is not a medical procedure. It cures no disease. It does not improve health. It is killing not healing.
They will claim it’s tied to mental health.
“I’m pretty sure the vast majority (like 99%+) of abortions are NOT medically necessary. I’m not a doctor. I can’t claim all abortions are unnecessary, but I daresay the vast majority are entirely elective.”
Elective Abortions are the new Government-Paid Birth Control!
I always thought that anyone agrees to sterilization could receive a year’s suppply of marijuana or to appear on a reality show for 15 minutes.
The baby killers are at it again.
These Californians just don’t get it!
Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the Holy understanding.
Then, I want liposuction and a face lift and whatever else will make me look better. It will help my self-esteem. I should not be burdened with wrinkles or extra weight, the second of which is, as is pregnancy, pretty much preventable.
My psychological health depends on this.
The solution, for them, is to implicate as many others in their evil as possible, and thus assuage to a degree their own conscience. When it doesn’t work for them their only alternative to work all the harder to make their evil normal and acceptable to all, even if people must be forced to accept this evil against their conscience, as if somehow this will make what is so plainly wrong right
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Homosexuals using the exact same M.O.
Totalitarians placing demands on socialists.
EVIL INCARNATE.
Don’t forget, something like 88% of Obamacare policies sold in CA are subsidized with federal (taxpayer) money...hence government is paying for abortions. This cannot stand. The Heritage Foundation did predict it back in Jan.: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/01/obamacares-many-loopholes-forcing-individuals-and-taxpayers-to-fund-elective-abortion-coverage
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