Health care reform at a steep moral cost

Abortions for poor women will be pushed back to dark alleys and coat hangers. The majority of the old men of the house has decided that their beliefs, or pretended beliefs, are the law of the land.

"H.R. 3962 would require illegal immigrants to obtain health insurance, but with no subsidies available, families living near the poverty line would be hard-pressed to comply. The insurance mandate would be enforced through income-tax penalties, and the threat of those penalties could encourage lower-income illegals working on the books and paying taxes to vanish into the underground economy." says the LA Times.

Re-illegalizing abortions for the poor is not just morally repugnant, after all we don't have other class specific laws, but it will also kill, maim, scar and impoverish women who cannot afford expensive private physicians.

The health care reform passed by the house makes, in all likelihood, the 20 million illegal immigrants in this country uninsured. It's not clear to me how HR3962 computes its "almost univesal" coverage, it must include some hard numbers, but it clearly assumes illegal immigrant are not human. It may be the law of the land if the senate passes the bill, but it is a crime against a large group of people.

So, we now have a first stage in the health care reform at steep moral cost and also a steep increase in death, suffering and segregation. I'll question the value of such a reform; I question even more a society that resorts to punishing many millions in order to help many other millions.