Ted Kennedy’s National Health Care Plan Could Pave The Way For Taxpayer Funded Abortions

A reader emails:

Today Senator Kennedy’s health care reform bill hit the internet. It arms a new, unelected agency (appointed by Sec. Sebellius, one of the strongest pro-abortionists in the Administration) to define essential health benefits.
Here is a summary of the power to be given to the new council [to be appointed by the Secretary of Health] under the Kennedy bill:
A qualified plan would have to cover “essential health benefits,” as defined by a new Medical Advisory Council (MAC), appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The MAC would determine what items and services are “essential benefits.” The MAC would have to include items and services in at least the following categories: ambulatory patient services, emergency services, hospitalization, maternity and new born care, medical and surgical, mental health, prescription drugs, rehab and lab services, preventive/wellness services, pediatric services, and anything else the MAC thought appropriate.

This is problematic for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is taxpayer funded abortions.
The health care you have access to would no longer be up to you, your doctor and whatever third party health payer (insurance, etc.) you may have but rather up to the President, through his/her appointed Secretary of Health. Meaning your health care is no longer a personal decision, but a political decision.
I, frankly, do not want to live under a system of health care that forces me to pay for abortions. Nor do I want to live under a system of health care that gives the President or any other politician or government bureaucrat a say in my health care.