Via Brian Beutler, a study from the GW School of Public Health and Health Services confirms progressive fears that over time the Stupak amendment would have quite widespread consequences for the availability of insurance coverage for abortion services. As Beutler writes “though the immediate impact of the Stupak amendment will be limited to the millions of women initially insured through a new insurance exchange, over time, as the exchanges grow, the insurance industry will scale down their abortion coverage options until they offer none at all.”
This is essentially a consequence of one of the main good things about the health care reforms being considered in congress. They not only set up insurance exchanges that will help the currently uninsured in the short-term, they’re designed to have broader implications for the future and over time reshape the health care system.
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