If this legislation had gone to single payer, then abortions would not be covered at all. Surely you aren't suggesting that that doesn't move the chains..
Of the overall abortion issue yes, but not what the Hyde Amendment and its possible successors cover. Also the movement on the overall issue goes back to bringing the system under the government.
Your not changing what the limitation covers, your changing its impact. Its impact expands because government control expands, but the limitation itself is unchanged.
If the law said "all cars have to be purple to be allowed on public roads", and the number of cars, the size of cars, the size of the road network, and the percentage of the road network that was public/government controlled/owned expanded, your not changing the initial limitation. Other changes outside the limitations or any restatements of it, expand the impact of the static limitation.
This situation is similar (if you start from a situation where there where plenty of private roads, and then go to a situation where their are fewer as in the current bills, or none, as in the most absolutist form of single payer, with not just other insurance, but private payment, or even charity/free medical care outlawed) |
