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RNC Insurance plan covers abortion

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As long as there are humans, there will be hypocrisy, because our hopes, beliefs, and dreams often do not coincide with common sense or reality.;)
 
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Being that not all Republicans are against abortion, and that somewhere between 46% and 87% (depending on the study you want to believe) of insurance companies have coverage for abortion, this isn't really surprising to me. I figure the RNC, just as many other businesses, pick their insurance coverage depending on price and availability. I certainly wouldn't expect the DNC to offer only insurance for their employees that contained the coverage of abortion. Business practice often overrides political ideology, as it should imo.
this was a conscious choice on the part of the RNC. i believe they could have easily opted out.

The Cigna employees said the RNC didn't choose to opt out of abortion coverage when given the opportunity, Politico.com reported.
 
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Looks like the right is taking some heat from this screw up. From a blogger at Politico.com:

For thirty years, we have fought tooth and nail to prevent our tax money from being used to pay for abortions. Turns out, we were apparently doing it through donating to the political party that was ostensibly on our side. This betrayal is so fundamental to the majority of people who donate to the RNC that it’s almost unspeakable. I have no doubt that many of the staffers there will miss the point, so allow me to make it clearly: you have caused every person who donated to support your livelihood to become involved in what they perceive to be a grave moral evil.

The RNC’s defense thus far seems to be excusable negligence; blaming it on some (surely departed) staffer who checked a box almost 20 years ago, and whoops, we weren’t careful enough. So sorry. It won’t happen again.

Not good enough....

In order for the RNC to regain the trust of their donors, they must disclose the names of all people involved in any way of the selection of their health care plan. And those people must be summarily fired. No severance packages, no golden parachutes; fired. For cause.

No pro-lifer in good conscience can give them a dime until this happens.

This isn't an issue of "Ooops! We made a mistake and we're sorry." This is "Ummm...we got away with it for nearly 20 years. Now, we have to tuck our tails between our legs and say all the right things to downplay this blunder and get beyond this embarrassment fast!!!"

The RNC membership is pissed and I can't say I blame them. The hypocrisy to one of their core values has been exposed. (I wonder how Rush will spin this...or if he said anything at all about it today? :confused: )
 
Forget another party. Secession is looking tastier by the day. Just cut the bankrupt west coast and northeast away, and 90 percent of our problems are solved. :mrgreen:

And you cut away about 90% of the population of the country :doh
 
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Looks like the right is taking some heat from this screw up. From a blogger at Politico.com:



This isn't an issue of "Ooops! We made a mistake and we're sorry." This is "Ummm...we got away with it for nearly 20 years. Now, we have to tuck our tails between our legs and say all the right things to downplay this blunder and get beyond this embarrassment fast!!!"

The RNC membership is pissed and I can't say I blame them. The hypocrisy to one of their core values has been exposed. (I wonder how Rush will spin this...or if he said anything at all about it today? :confused: )
i'm more interested in carrie prejean's opinion. ;-)
 
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i'm more interested in carrie prejean's opinion. ;-)

She was right and has been railroaded for it. But, let's not derail the subject. Let us Libs (no matter how centrist we might be) enjoy the moment. Ahhhh! ;)
 
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this was a conscious choice on the part of the RNC. i believe they could have easily opted out.

Should they have opted out? I dare say that there are a number of republicans who support abortion rights, most of them women. Should a national political party office object on principle and refuse to offer a product that some of their employees want? I personally don't think that political platform content should override good business practice, no matter the party designation.
 
Aren't the thread titles on this forum supposed to be the same as the title of the article? I don't really care, as far as the rules are concerned, but for clarity and spin reduction, the title of the article is:

RNC to opt out of abortion coverage
 
dear ronnie was a conservative because he identified himself as one and because conservatives from coast to coast consider him one

ask gorby

reagan prioritized ending the evil empire above balancing the budget

reagan was a realist, it's a big reason why he was so effective

as to conservatives in NEW YORK (LOL!), a third party is now within a percent of STEALING teeny 23

as for a gop abortion insurance plan, it just goes to show the army, pentagon, defense dept, state dept, justice dept are not alone

the national republican party is imbued with its own elements of political correctness

once the news made media, however, the party characteristically corrected the mistake within 24 hours

problem solved
 
Aren't the thread titles on this forum supposed to be the same as the title of the article? I don't really care, as far as the rules are concerned, but for clarity and spin reduction, the title of the article is:

Actually....it did fit the title of the article at the time the article was posted. Often yahoo titles undergo several changes for some reason. If you look at the OP....it was the title at the time I posted....just so you know.
 
Aren't the thread titles on this forum supposed to be the same as the title of the article? I don't really care, as far as the rules are concerned, but for clarity and spin reduction, the title of the article is:

There were two threads on this subject - one, of which, I started. The mods combined them. Hence, the reason some posts have a different title.
 
Point? I've never argued that he cut taxes. I'm saying that cutting taxes is all he did that was "conservative", even when it saddled us with a huge debt.

It was not the tax cuts that "saddled us with a huge debt". Cutting the taxes actually led to growth and resulting increase in revenue to the government. It was the free spending Democrat congress that, because they did not cut spending, caused the debt.
 
It was not the tax cuts that "saddled us with a huge debt". Cutting the taxes actually led to growth and resulting increase in revenue to the government. It was the free spending Democrat congress that, because they did not cut spending, caused the debt.

What about all of his military spending?
 
President Reagan had to deal with a Democrat congress. Early on he cut taxes, which got us out of the recession like Obama should have done, but the Dem. congress later raised taxes and spend like drunken sailors.

please apologize to sailors, drunk or sober...


democrats tax and spend...or pay as you go...
republicans borrow and spend....or let our grandkids pay...


drunken sailors spend their OWN money.....:2razz:
 
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The policy also has death panels in it!..
 
Abortion is a dead issue, no pun intended.

The right in this country should get over it, you cannot control a woman in this way, it is unconstitutional. Just as I believe these "death panels" will be, and there will be panels who decide which old person gets what operation, it goes on all the time in the socialist countries where this bill comes from.
 
Remember when the republicans used to be conservative? It worked very well then, at least when people THOUGHT they were conservative.

Actually, there used to be alot more liberal Republicans.
 
Abortion is a dead issue, no pun intended.

The right in this country should get over it, you cannot control a woman in this way, it is unconstitutional. Just as I believe these "death panels" will be, and there will be panels who decide which old person gets what operation, it goes on all the time in the socialist countries where this bill comes from.

Yeah, good thing there aren't actually any "death panels" in any of the healthcare bills.
 
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