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ABORTION, THE CAPP AMENDMENT
Representative Capp has proposed a an amendment radically different from the status quo. Today the federal government does not pay into health care plans that cover elective abortions. No government health plans cover elective abortions. This includes Medicaid, federal employees health benefits program, the State children's health insurance program and other programs.
Opponents of abortion, like the National Right to Life Committee, say the legislation would use tax dollars to subsidize insurance that would cover abortion.
Under a bill, approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, health plans, including the new government insurance plan, can choose to cover abortion. But they generally could not use federal money to pay for the procedure. Instead, would have to use money from the premiums paid by beneficiaries, through government subsidies.
Health care legislation counseling might encourage elderly people to end their lives sooner then they wish. As seniors grow increasingly ill or incapacitated, what extensive steps should we take to keep them alive?
Should seniors draw up advance directives, powers of attorney do not resuscitate orders, or other documents to express their wishes? Who should be authorized to make crucial decisions for them?
To reduce health care, government paid consultations would certainly encourage people to accept approaching death rather than have them receive costly medical procedures that could extend their lives. Such panels would promote euthanasia.
All five Senate committees, had voted down an explicit measure to prevent federal dollars from being used for elective abortions.
Nothing in federal law prohibits individual states from using their own tax dollars to pay for elective abortions, or pay into plans that do cover elective abortions. Currently 17 states pay for elective abortions.
Each year there was a provision added to all the spending bills that prohibits states from using the matching funds they get from the federal government for Medicaid to pay for abortions. That provision is called the Hyde amendment this means no dollar, that your state, associated with Medicaid may paid for elective abortions.
Federal law currently protects American taxpayers from paying for abortions as part of health benefits given to federal employees.
The Capps amendment if it becomes law, would make abortion coverage a part of the public option. Tax dollars would be funneled to private health plans that cover abortions and ensure every area of the country who have at least one health insurance plan to cover elective abortions. The federal government for the first time in 30 years would be in the business of funding abortions.
The amendment is supposed to make sure that federal dollars do not go directly for elective abortions. This is being bypassed because federal dollars would still subsidize insurance plans that pay for abortions.
The plan is being sold on the false premise that the status quo would be maintained. Americans would not go along with it otherwise.
EUTHANASIA: The House bill provides Medicare coverage for optional consultations with doctors who advise patients on life-sustaining treatment and “end-of-life services,” including hospice care.
The legislation instructs Medicare officials to propose ways to measure the quality of end-of-life care. Doctors would have financial incentives to report data on such care to the government. Currently, this has been removed from the
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