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...addition to allowing the state legislature to end Medicaid-funded abortions, the proposal would allow private insurance companies to stop covering abortions as part of private health insurance. So even for women who can afford health insurance, abortions could be made much more difficult to obtain. The measure would also empower the state to license and to regulate abortion clinics, creating an opportunity for anti-abortion activists to harrass and obstruct their operations...
...fact, "yes" could eventually deprive all Massachusetts citizens of the right to obtain a safe and legal abortion, because the proposition would eliminate Medicaid funding and eliminate the legal obligation for private insurance companies to provide coverage for abortions. This means UHS would no longer be legally required to cover abortions for Harvard students...
...meantime, the referendum, if passed, will allow the legislature to regulate abortion in other ways. For example, the legislature could eliminate Medicaid funding for abortions. As of the Hyde Amendment of 1977, there is no federal funding for Medicaid abortions except in the case of threat of death to the pregnant woman. Massachusetts currently pays for several thousand Medicaid abortions each year, in the same way that it supports thousands more welfare births. There is currently a law on the state books which mandates Medicaid funding of abortions as long as child birth funds are provided. Only by presenting poor...
...recognize the little fellow? He might be a lawyer or an income tax supervisor, an editor or a banker or a Medicaid investigator, or a number of other things. At least that might be the view of anybody who had recently been engaged in rebuilding a house or paying taxes, writing something or borrowing money or paying a hospital bill, or a number of other things. In fact, almost anything. The question is this: What is the ratio, in our vast, booming $3 trillion economy, between the people who actually make things or actually provide services and the people...
...easy enough to blame such situations on the proliferation of government regulations and the heavy hand of government itself. President Reagan, for one, took that approach a while back when he publicly denounced his own Medicaid administrators for paying $12,000 a month to keep 3-year-old Katie Beckett in a hospital but refusing to pay the mere $2,000 it would have cost for her to live at home. When Presidents intervene, of course, bureaucrats tend to see reason. Katie was duly sent home, and a new committee was named to check on the several dozen other Katies...