Healthcare

August 4, 2011 In a move celebrated by Planned Parenthood, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, led by former Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius, has directed that health insurance policies must provide coverage for birth control and sterilization.  Under the new policy, insurers will not be allowed to charge co-pays, co-insurance charges, or deductibles …

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February 19, 2011 The long-anticipated decision by the Obama Administration to overturn the Bush Administration’s conscience protection regulation has finally occurred.  The Bush regulation was designed to protect health care personnel from being required to to participate in medical procedures that they find immoral.  The Obama regulation will apparently keep in place some protections against …

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February 5, 2011 An attempt to repeal the new health care reform law failed on a party line vote of 47-51 on Wednesday.  This comes two weeks after the US House voted for repeal 245-189.

January 20, 2011 Wednesday, the US House voted 245-189 to repeal the new health care law passed by Congress and signed by President Obama last spring.  Despite their decades-long call for reform of America’s health care system, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops ultimately opposed passage of the final bill because it contained unacceptable provisions …

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July 16, 2010 Facing accusations that the taxpayers were already on the verge of paying for other people’s abortions through the new health care law, the US Department of Health and Human Services has announced that abortion coverage will in fact be excluded from federally-funded high-risk health insurance pools.

May 3, 2010 Pro-Life members of Congress have introduced legislation that would prevent federal funding of abortion under the new health care reform law recently passed by Congress.  HR 5111, the “Protect Life Act,” would also protect the conscience rights of health care personnel.  The bill would essentially codify the Pro-Life protections that the nation’s …

Pro-Life Congressmen Introduce Bill to Amend Health Care Legislation Read More »

March 30, 2010 The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has released an analysis of the executive order negotiated by Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak.  There is virtual unanimity within the Pro-Life community that the executive order will not be able to overrule the provisions on the new health care law that open the door to …

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March 29, 2010 Bishop Gilmore’s column from early February offers an eloquent and impassioned appraisal of what the health care reform bill that has now been passed by Congress and signed by the President means for our country.

March 22, 2010 For months Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak had led a group of Pro-Life Democrats who declined to support the health care reform bill unless it contained language applying existing  protections against federal funding of abortion to the bill.  Unfortunately, Congressman Stupak and his remaining holdouts negotiated a deal with the White House.  Under …

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March 22, 2010 Late last night, the US House of Representatives passed a health care reform bill that is both monumental in its scope and profoundly controversial in its substance.  While the Catholic Church has for decades supported health care reform and the expansion of access to care that this bill purports to have as …

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