Tennessee's legislature recently passed and its governor let stand a new law that bars coverage of abortion in plans offered in Tennessee's state-run health insurance exchange that will be created to comply with provisions of the health insurance reform (HIR) bill passed by Congress this past March.
TN followed the model set forth by AUL.....
"We don't consider elective abortion to be health care, so we don't think it's a bad thing for fewer private insurance companies to cover it," said Mary Harned, attorney for Americans United for Life, a national organization that wrote a model law for the states.So Daily Kos thinks it is so terrible that tax payers in TN object to their tax money paying for someone's abortion or abortions. After all should someone want to have an abortion in TN they may use private funds or a private insurance plan not subsidized by tax money. How awful??! Boycott, Boycott! calls Daily Kos.
POTUS allowed a provision in the Healthcare bill for states to opt out and AZ and TN were the first two to take advantage of this. Now Daily Kos already hates AZ and is adding TN to the list. But wait, FL, MS,MO have already passed similar laws and sent them to the governors for their signature. LA, OH, OK are expected to act this year on similar measures. According to an article in Real Clear Politics there are 29 states where lawmakers or public policy groups expressed serious interest in doing this.
It looks like Daily Kos may have to limit their travel and business ventures pretty radically or just stay home.
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