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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Pro-Life Family No Longer Forced to Pay Obamacare 'Abortion Surcharge'
via Breitbart Feed
When a pro-life family in Connecticut found that their state Obamacare
exchange only offered plans that included abortion coverage, they filed a
lawsuit against federal and state officials because they could not purchase
a plan that did not require its participants to pay for the elective
abortions of others. Last month, the Bracy Family dismissed its lawsuit
after the addition of health plans to the exchange that will not require
them to pay for abortions.
The Barth and Abbie Bracy Family of Dayville, Connecticut on the Rhode
Island border, were forced onto the state’s Obamacare exchange when their
health insurance plan was cancelled in October of 2013 along with those of
many other Americans.
“We liked our insurance plan and wanted to keep it, but couldn’t because
it was cancelled due to Obamacare,” Bracy told Breitbart News during an
interview that included his attorney, Senior Counsel Casey Mattox of
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which represented the family in the
lawsuit.
Bracy, who is the executive director of Rhode Island State Right to Life,
said that after his insurance was cancelled, he looked at Connecticut’s
Access Health CT Obamacare exchange to see which plans would not cover
elective abortions.
“Even though Obamacare specifies that plans that do not offer abortions
must be listed, I couldn’t find any information,” he explained.
“Barth is incredibly well-informed about abortion coverage,” Mattox told
Breitbart News, “yet even he couldn’t find any information about it in the
Connecticut exchange or figure out how to readily get it. Finally, he
learned that all the plans covered abortion.”
“It’s easier to find IRS emails than to find out if your health insurance
covers abortion,” joked Mattox. “You need a working knowledge of the Hyde
Amendment and you need to be like Barth Bracy and look to see if every month
you’re paying into a fund to pay for other people’s abortions.”
In fact, in October of last year, then-Secretary of Health and Human
Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius told members of Congress that she did not
know if she could provide Americans with a list of which plans fund
abortions when they enroll in the exchanges.
Bracy explained that because federal law prohibits taxpayer funding of
abortion, Obamacare requires every exchange health insurance plan that
includes abortion to collect a separate “abortion surcharge” fee to pay
for these procedures. The surcharge, however, is not enumerated in the
premium but is, instead, added to the total.
“It must be a separate fee collected from each enrollee each month,” he
continued. “But, nobody is doing that and they’re not following the law.”
In September, the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) reported that
the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its account of 1,036
federally subsidized health insurance plans that cover elective abortions.
“[I]nsurance consumers were frequently not informed of this coverage before
enrolling; and plan issuers are not billing elective abortion coverage
separately despite a legal requirement,” said CLI. “The report also makes
public for the first time a complete list identifying every plan by name
that covers elective abortion and those that do not in the states that
permit coverage on the insurance exchanges.”
“There’s lots of secrecy and confusion about coverage of abortion in the
Obamacare exchange plans,” Mattox continued. “Four states still require
all plans to cover abortion and have an abortion surcharge: Rhode Island,
Vermont, New Jersey, and Hawaii.”
According to ADF, “All plans nationwide that include abortion coverage
require the surcharge, but the ACA [Obamacare] requires that it not be
separately disclosed in the bill.”
“If everyone who signed on to the Obamacare exchanges were to get a bill
for an ‘abortion surcharge,’ that would make a huge difference,” Mattox
said. “People would not sign up for plans and there would be transparency.”
Mattox went on to explain that in the Bracys’ case, the stipulation from
Connecticut was that at least two and up to four health insurance plans on
the exchange would not have the abortion surcharge. Subsequently, ADF, on
behalf of the Bracys, voluntarily dismissed the case.
Additionally, Mattox said Americans should be aware that, in half of the
states, including Connecticut, people have already been in exchange
insurance plans, and paying for abortions, for a year.
“These people have a right to have money refunded to them and the right to
have the surcharge stopped,” he said. “Americans have the right to protect
their own family’s health without paying for other peoples’ abortions.”
Bracy said he believes the best recourse for all Americans who do not wish
to pay for abortions is for Congress to pass Rep. Chris Smith’s (R-NJ) “No
Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Act.”
“Under Obamacare, billions of dollars in the form of tax credits are today
buying abortion-subsidizing health insurance plans in exchanges throughout
the country,” said Smith when he announced his bill. “For example, of the
112 health insurance plans available to members of Congress and staff, most,
that is, 103 plans pay for abortion on demand.”
“Americans should not have to pay a special fee for other people’s
abortions in order to take care of their own family’s health,” said Mattox
. “The Bracy family has experienced first-hand the kind of deception that
was used to pass and that continues to pervade this law.” |
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