{"id":1038,"date":"2009-12-19T11:01:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T16:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:52:14","slug":"giant-insurance-company-giveaway-eve-abortion-coverage-is-the-new-opt-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"Giant Insurance Company Giveaway Eve: Abortion Coverage is the New Opt-Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More on the concessions to ensure Ben Nelson gets greater control over my body (at least if I live in a Red State) <a href=\"http:\/\/prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/19\/democrats-say-they-clinch-deal-on-health-care-overhauls\/?hp\">from NYT.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under Mr. Reid\u2019s proposal, health insurance plans are not required or forbidden to cover abortion services, but there is a major exemption that would give states power to prohibit abortion coverage in the insurance markets, or exchanges, where most health plans would be sold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, also, Reid was also apparently required to sweeten the deal by outright buying Nelson off:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Reid\u2019s amendment also includes a substantial increase in federal contributions to Nebraska\u2019s costs of providing Medicaid coverage to the poor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which, of course, does not extend to abortion coverage.  Because, you know, they are poor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More on the concessions to ensure Ben Nelson gets greater control over my body (at least if I live in a Red State) from NYT. Under Mr. Reid\u2019s proposal, health insurance plans are not required or forbidden to cover abortion services, but there is a major exemption that would give states power to prohibit abortion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[298,297,20,330,10,331,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}