“I SAID I just got a free abortion!”
Right when you think it’s not possible for DC to be even more screwed up than it already is, in pops Obamacare. Some of the exchanges in the District of Columbia cover elective abortions but not hearing aids. You heard that right. Well, you heard it if you still have a hearing aid from your previous insurance before it was cancelled.
This is beyond ridiculous. As a matter of fact, if you go 500 miles past ridiculous, turn right, and then keep going for another 17 trillion miles you still won’t reach how far beyond ridiculous this is.
Other things not covered would be routine eye-examinations, so you won’t be able to read this either, routine foot-care, because why would you need to walk anywhere for say something like A JOB if you live in DC. Other things not covered would also be infertility treatments. So evidently it’s ok to end the lives of children but not do anything to attempt to help create them.
Per Anna Higgins of the Family Research Council, in D.C. Aetna plans and multi-state plans run by the Office of Personnel Management and offered by Blue Cross Blue Shield specifically don’t offer elective abortion coverage. All the other plans offered in the District do cover elective abortion. When she wrote about the issue in October for TownHall, representatives from the D.C. exchange told her that plans were required to cover abortion because it was an “essential benefit.” That’s incorrect, however, and the exchange later retracted the statement. The Affordable Care Act specifically states that abortion is not an essential benefit, so not all plans cover the procedure.
Did you ever think you’d live in a world where ending the life of a child would be a debatable issue under “essential benefits”? I certainly didn’t.
A number of other plans in D.C. that cover elective abortion don’t cover things such as hearing aids, routine foot-care, and routine eye-care. For instance, CD BChoice HSA Br 6000 includes elective-abortion coverage but excludes coverage for hearing aids, infertility treatment, and routine foot-care. And the Kaiser Permanente KP DC Bronze 4500/50/HSA/Dental/PedDental covers elective abortion but not routine foot-care, hearing aids, and infertility treatment. The KP DC 5000/30%/HSA/Dental/PedDental also covers elective abortion but not hearing aids, routine foot-care, and infertility care.
Way to prioritize people. Looking forward to the death panels so we don’t have to mess with those pesky hearing aids in the first place. (Yes, sarcasm)
