Just read the news on the proposed deal on the healthcare bill on the subject of abortion, and something really stood out to me - it's one thing to deny coverage for most abortions under the gov't plan.  I agree with that. Conservative and liberal taxpayers don't want to pay for someone's procedure.  I can accept that.

But it seems they are fighting to have in the amendment to ban most abortion coverage from the public option and other insurance providers.

Other insurance providers? As in private insurance?

Hasn't the GOP been pretty much running their massive protest on the fear of government takeover? What happened? Why, all of the sudden, is the direct involvement of government into the private practice of insurance businesses suddenly okay?

Oh, because it enforces something they have wanted for quite some time… to interfere with the rights of private citizens on, among other things, the subject of abortion.

Don’t let this fool you. This would be a ‘worst-case scenario’ compromise for the GOP. All they really want is to keep everything in limbo until the 2010 run, hope to take the majority in the House and Senate and then kill reform permanently. It’s the same game they’ve been playing for over 20 years.

But still…. To ban abortion not only in the public option but from private practice….

Where is Newt Gingrich? Or Rush Limbaugh? Or even Palin? Why aren’t they already jumping up and down about government overreaching its boundaries and interfering with private practice?

Do you really think any of them will utter a single word? A whisper?

I guess time will tell. What I CAN tell you know is that no, there is no way in hell the government should be placing a ban – any ban, really – on private insurance other than making denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions and other common sense issues.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/07/health.care/index.html

If you haven’t already, I strongly encourage you to read “The Lie Machine”, written by Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson. It is an eye opener for those who weren’t on ‘the inside’ of not only the town hall riots recently, but going back pre-clinton…

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/30219673/the_lie_machine