The following comes from a Nov. 21 story on the website of the Heritage Foundation.
Taxpayer funding streams from Obamacare and mandates on insurers could provide increased funding and coverage for abortion providers. Through grants awarded for promotional efforts and new coverage requirements on insurers providing qualified plans, the health care law could benefit Planned Parenthood and other providers of elective abortion.
The coercive, one-size-fits-all regime of Obamacare is already set to increase costs and further burden taxpayers. The fact that bureaucrats are using the law to funnel more tax dollars to an organization that performed almost 1 million abortions in the past three years aloneshould give policymakers another reason to stop further implementation of the health care law.
Fears of low enrollment in Obamacare exchanges have prompted both federal and state governments to fund an army of taxpayer-compensated community groups—including Planned Parenthood affiliates—that will market the health care law and facilitate people’s entrance into the health plan marketplaces.
In mid-August, the Obama Administration announced the award of over $655,000 in taxpayer grants to Planned Parenthood affiliates in Iowa, Montana, and New Hampshire for “navigators” to help enroll Americans in federally facilitated insurance exchanges under Obamacare.
Meanwhile, more than a dozen states that have set up their own exchanges plan to spend tens of millions in taxpayer dollars funding community group “assisters” to promote their marketplaces. Many of those “assisters” could also include local Planned Parenthood affiliates, providing additional streams of Obamacare funding to the largest abortion provider in the nation. The District of Columbia awarded $375,000—one of the largest “assister” grants in the District—to Planned Parenthood Metropolitan D.C. to help enroll citizens in the District’s state-based health care exchange.
Likewise, California, Minnesota, and Vermont have awarded a total of over $700,000 to local Planned Parenthood affiliates to aid individuals’ enrollment in their exchanges, and many more states will likely follow suit.
Planned Parenthood and other family planning clinics could also benefit from an Obamacare requirement that qualified insurance plans cover a sufficient number of “essential community providers”.
These providers are defined in Obamacare as health care providers and hospitals that predominantly serve “low-income, medically underserved individuals.” These organizations include federally qualified health clinics, hospitals, and Title X family planning centers, among other providers.
In order to sell a qualified health plan on an exchange, insurers must cover a minimum of 10 percent of these providers in a plan’s coverage area. Insurers must offer contracts to providers in each provider category in each county covered, including at least one family planning clinic or Title X “look-alike” clinic. According to a non-exhaustive list of providers released by the Department of Health and Human Services earlier this year, those family planning providers could include more than 400 local Planned Parenthood affiliates….
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Well, here it is at last; the real reason for ObamaCare (and the bishops know this): to help the good folks at Planned Parenthood (that is, to help them make enormous profits). Satan, and his pals, are virtual staffers at the Obama White House, and the Harry Reid-run Senate. You see, the problem with electing someone evil, like Obama (and he is), is that he draws to his administration other, likeminded demons. The chief subtext of the ACA, is to enshrine the “sacrament” of abortion into law, make everyone comfortable with it as a “right,” and, because of its centrality, have everyone understand that they must pay for this from their own pockets. And, you know, the evildoers are largely correct — most Americans could care less. Given the low state of female morality that passes for normal in the USA this days, this is no real wonder. How completely obsene, how unspeakably wrong, and how “Swedish,” too. The Democratic Party should be shouted down by every American; and the USCCB should be shuttered. (Of course THAT will never happen, how else is Cardinal Dolan going to break bread with the Evil One, and laughing like a couple of school boys over a juvenile dirty joke.) Stop supporting these people. Stand up and call evil out. Do not contribute to the CCHD, or much anything else advocated by the USCCB. And, pray like there is no tomorrow.
I do not like Planned Parenthood….look at these women in this article….they better not be Catholic! If so…..we have a worst problem to deal with more than we know or deny.
Planned Parenthood is in bed with Obamacare!
Barack H. Obama puts our money where his heart is: the Culture of Death.
Remember the article last month on Planned Parenthood in California. They have been allotted money to build more clinics to provide “primary care” to “poor” clients. PP has petitioned the courts to allow them to bypass California building codes because their clients are “poor”! We were given the false promise that the Obama-don’t-care Careless Act was about giving the same great healthcare to all American’s by making sure everyone has insurance. So am I to understand that being insured now means having to visit a Planned Parenthood clinic which may possibly not withstand an earthquake?
Anyone who still thinks that Insurance = Healthcare, had better wake up and smell the coffee!