CNN/Fortune: 5 freedoms you'd lose in health care reform

If you read the fine print in the Congressional plans, you'll find that a lot of cherished aspects of the current system would disappear.

By Shawn Tully, editor at large
July 24, 2009: 10:17 AM ET

http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/economy/health_care_reform_obama.fortune/index.htm

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- In promoting his health-care agenda, President Obama has repeatedly reassured Americans that they can keep their existing health plans -- and that the benefits and access they prize will be enhanced through reform.

A close reading of the two main bills, one backed by Democrats in the House and the other issued by Sen. Edward Kennedy's Health committee, contradict the President's assurances. To be sure, it isn't easy to comb through their 2,000 pages of tortured legal language. But page by page, the bills reveal a web of restrictions, fines, and mandates that would radically change your health-care coverage.

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1. Freedom to choose what's in your plan
2. Freedom to be rewarded for healthy living, or pay your real costs
3. Freedom to choose high-deductible coverage
4. Freedom to keep your existing plan
5. Freedom to choose your doctors

New website: Healthcare for Gunner.com

Students for Life of America Executive Director Kristan Hawkins has a young son recently diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis, and has released a website detailing the way in which healthcare proposals would affect him. The website, Healthcare for Gunner, approaches the healthcare debate not only from a pro-life perspective, but from a uniquely pro-child one as well.

Check out the speech on healthcare reform at the 2009 MCFL Convention

Burke Balch spoke about the right ways and wrong ways to reform the U.S. healthcare system. There are pro-life reforms that would save lives, and pro-abortions reforms that will lead to escalating costs, rationing and increased abortions.



You can also see Mike Barnett's discussion about recruitment, that was part of our breakout sessions, by clicking here.

MCFL News Heaslip Story and Quality Control

"Tragic Choices" shows the extent to which pregnant women are subjected to an analysis of their child's worthiness to be born based on manufacturing protocols.
Imperfect human beings are seen as defective products to be removed from the assembly line. The parents can always try again for a more desirable child. This distorts the relationship between parents, children, and the medical profession. Parents become masters, children become consumable packages,allowed to continue life as long as their fitness meets the criteria which doctors and society have judged valuable enough to warrant existence.

Globe: Catholic Hospitals to Ban Abortions

MCFL President Anne Fox quoted in the story, which shows the controversy that health care reform has when it puts pro-life entities in league with those companies supporting the abortion industry. Learn how to engage real health care reform at the March 28th MCFL Convention at BC Law, which you can register for online or by calling the MCFL office at (617) 242-4199

Bedford Minuteman: Whitewashing Health Secretary Sebelius' abortion ties

The Bedford Minuteman ran this puff piece on Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius' nomination while also linking to this advocacy website at the bottom, "Catholics for Sebelius" which is part of the Obama adminstration's efforts to outflank the pro-life movement in exposing the truth behind Sebelius. Shockingly, Sen. Sam Brownback has said he supports Sebelius despite her radically pro-abortion record.