A California law requiring all health plans cover abortions is set to collide with federal Affordable Care Act repeal efforts that would cut federal subsidies for health plans that pay for the procedure.
State officials and health advocates have pledged to fight a stipulation of the Republican-authored American Health Care Act that could deprive 1.4 million Californians of the federal tax credits that help them afford coverage on the Covered California health exchange.
Abortion is considered a basic health service under California law, and all plans regulated by the Department of Managed Health Care are required to cover it. That includes plans offered through the Covered California exchange. About 90 percent of the 1.4 million Californians insured through the exchange receive tax credits to offset the cost of care.
Under the new health care bill, people with any plan covering abortions, other than in instances of rape, incest and life-threatening medical situations, couldn’t receive those subsidies. All 11 health plans offered through Covered California would be cut off.
“California is really in a bind here,” said Amy Chen, staff attorney in the Los Angeles office of the National Health Law Program, a legal organization that advocates for the health rights of low-income people. “It creates an untenable situation because almost no one would be eligible for these tax credits.”
The average enrollee in Covered California plans received $3,500 in credits in 2016, while the average household received $5,300. Without those subsidies, many people would be priced out of coverage, Chen said.
In other states, where abortion coverage is not required, some marketplace plans will likely drop the benefit in favor of the subsidy. California is the only state requiring health plans pay for abortions.
Full story at Sacramento Bee.
There is nothing basic about the abortion of an unborn child. Close to 60 Million unborn baby children have been slaughtered since Roe versus Wade legalized abortion in America in 1973. If America wants to avoid the punishment and wrath of Almighty God turn immediately from the culture of death to the culture of life. End abortion now! Adoption is the loving option.
I’m sure there are plenty of dam spillways that can be allowed to deteriorate so that the funds used for them can be diverted to killing innocent unborn babies. I am equally sure that Gov. moonbeam will require that this be done.
The solution is simple, but the murderous fiends who run this once-great state are so addicted to mass murder of the unborn that they can’t do the right thing.