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  • Nelson Caves, Will Support the Reid Health Care Reform Bill

    12/19/2009 6:10:31 PM PST · by 2nd amendment mama · 17 replies · 959+ views
    HumanEvents.com ^ | 12/19/2009 | Connie Hair
    Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has caved in to pressure from Democrats in their proposed government takeover of the health care industry, settling for language that allows use of federal taxpayer dollars to fund abortion. But was the abortion issue the reason he objected to the bill at all? Now that he’s caved on the language and will vote to allow federal funding of abortion, people are left to wonder. The House-passed bill includes language that would repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act which exempts insurance companies from federal anti-trust legislation, which facilitates insurance company monopolies within each state. Yesterday afternoon, the insurance...