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Lawyers, Guns and Money:  Responding to Stupak-Pitts

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Responding to Stupak-Pitts
Lawyers, Guns and Money — Via ema in comments, some crucial info about Stupak's handiwork: The Stupak-Pitts amendment forbids any plan offering abortion coverage in the new system from accepting even one subsidized customer. Since more than 80 percent of the participants in the exchange will be subsidized, it seems certain that all health plans will seek and accept these individuals. In other words, the Stupak-Pitts amendment forces plans in the exchange to make a difficult choice: either offer their product to 80 percent of consumers in the ...

Sunday Late Night: Stupak, Defined
Firedoglake — ... To commemorate Saturday’s infamous rollback of women’s reproductive health introduced by Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Gilead) and included in the health care reform bill by a floor vote permitted under the Rule developed by Democratic leadership, Duncan Black (Atrios) proposed a new definition for the term Stupak: ...

Santorum Stupak
HorsesAss.Org — ... you’ve developed Stupak, a form of sepsis, a severe illness in which the bloodstream is overwhelmed by bacteria. I guess you can go to Urban Dictionary and vote if you wish. While there are others worthy of scorn in this sorry episode, Bart Stupak deserves to go down in history as the misogynistic disease that he is. If his barbaric poison pill is in the conference report, there will be political hell to pay. (Props to Firedoglake and Eschaton.)