Health Care: Stab it in the skull and kill it

http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=666

The Democrat health care bill includes the public option, the public option requires payment of premiums into the federal treasury, and those funds can be used to pay for abortions.

Therefore, the health care reform bill would permit public money to be used to pay for abortions under the government health care plan. Yay.

As is customary, the byzantine language used in legislation is confusing as hell. Here’s how it works:

Currently, federal money can’t be used to pay for abortions. There is no law against it (as the Obama administration tries to claim). There’s simply an amendment to the federal budget that has to be renewed every year that disallows federal funding for abortions. So all that’s required for the federal government (and for the public option) to permit federal funding for elective abortions is for Congress to decide not to renew that budget amendment.

Can you imagine a possibility where Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack “4th Trimester” Obama might let that amendment lapse?