Posted on 07/04/2024 9:23:51 AM PDT by Morgana
Delaware lawmakers voted last week to require private insurance companies and Medicaid to fund abortion in the state. The measure passed by a party-line vote of 15-6.
HB 110 covers a maximum benefit of $750 annually — a sum lawmakers say will cover the cost of a chemical abortion, more commonly known as the abortion pill. Legislative analysts used data from the Delaware Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance to estimate that nearly 85% of the state’s abortions are committed via the abortion pill.
The bill also mandates that insurance providers cannot charge any co-pays, impose deductibles, or require any other kind of cost-sharing for abortion coverage. Religious employers will reportedly be exempt if they can prove they have a religious objection to abortion.
The measure had opponents in the General Assembly.
“This is a procedure that you want my tax dollars to pay for,” Republican Sen. Bryant Richardson said. “I’m sorry, I think this is evil.”
READ: Woman who took abortion pill: I was ‘weeping and screaming’ because I saw my baby
During a previous debate in the House, Rep. Valerie Jones Giltner argued that even cancer patients have to pay for their treatments through cost-sharing insurance fees. “To say that there should be no deductible, no co-pay, for anybody that gets an abortion, even if they have private insurance, is not sound financial judgment,” she said.
Delaware Senate sponsor of the bill, Kyle Evans Gay, claimed, “Continuing to deny coverage for abortion will create health disparities instead of dismantling them. The lack of coverage disproportionately affects marginalized communities, low-income individuals and people in regions with limited health care resources, including Sussex County.”
The taxpayer cost for the measure for fiscal year 2025 is more than $503,000, with a $250,000 one-time cost.
Live Action News has previously reported on the evidence that making abortion free (to the woman) does not help marginalized communities — it incentivizes it, further pressuring women into feeling that abortion is their only option. Instead of a free ticket for killing their children, low-income individuals need policy changes that offer meaningful assistance and services, so they can better provide for their families.
The bill now heads to the desk of Democratic Governor John Carney for signature.
DISGUSTING!!! EVIL!!! NO ONE ELSE SHOULD PAY TO KILL YOIR BABY!
Progressives understand very well how to weaponize private industry outside of government to achieve their purpose.
I so agree
The US, like the EU, is 50 separate “mostly sovereign” countries. That’s why there are some dramatic differences in the laws, and why I simply avoid some of them. It’s why 13 years ago I moved from my home country of 46 years, Washington state, to my new homeland, Kentucky. Third best decision I ever met. As far as I’m concerned, I now live in paradise.
The insurance companies should pull out of Delaware.
Sounds very Third Reich-ish to me.
Woman who took abortion pill: I was ‘weeping and screaming’ because I saw my baby
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If we evolved from amoeba and apes, why is she weeping and screaming?
Do Amoeba and apes weep and scream over their miscarried fetus?
Oh, maybe we did not evolve.
“The bill also mandates that insurance providers cannot charge any co-pays, impose deductibles, or require any other kind of cost-sharing for abortion coverage”
How generous of them to give away the services of private businesses for free.
"Delaware Senate passes bill mandating insurance coverage for abortion"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
This may be a 1st Amendment religious expression / free speech protections issue applied to the states by the 14th Amendment (14A).
Excerpted from 14A:
"Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
A while back (2015-16), comparable (imo) cases were decided against unions taking union dues out of a government paycheck, union members complaining that they didn't necessarily agree with policies being pushed by the union.
Union and School Illegally Take Dues from Teachers' Paychecks (9.20.16)
PA moves to block public unions from withholding dues from paychecks (10.16.15)
The problem with 14A protecting citizens' constitutionally enumerated rights from abridgment by the states is this imo. Democratic and Republican Trump supporters first need to support hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, but will also do their duty to protect citizens' rights from abuse by the states.
WATCH THE PRIVATE INSURERS LEAVE DELAWARE.....
Not at all... See my post above
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