[PetroniusMaximus]

“Unfortunately, Petronius has a problem with truth.”

Oh! That’s rich!!!

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/23068.html

WASHINGTON — Fred Thompson escalated the Republican presidential candidates’ war over abortion Wednesday by tying former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to “$50 abortions in Massachusetts.”

Romney, the governor from 2003 until January, helped create Commonwealth Care, a state-run and subsidized program for low- and moderate-income people. The state helps determine what services are to be covered, and its list includes a provision in which women can get abortions for $50 co-payments.

The legislation also created a MassHealth payment policy advisory board that gave Planned Parenthood a seat, but not an anti-abortion group.

“Romney claims to be pro-life,” the Thompson campaign said in a statement. “But under his health care plan, Massachusetts residents now have access to taxpayer-funded abortions for $50.”

The Thompson statement also said that Romney had used his line-item veto authority to strike eight sections of the bill, but not the terms guaranteeing Planned Parenthood board representation, “and he did nothing to prohibit taxpayer-financed abortions as part of his plan.”

http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/Huckabee:_Romney_Okayed_$/2007/12/31/60734.html
http://www.truthnews.us/?p=1265
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/962685067.html
http://schotlinepress.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/romney-50-abortions-in-massachusetts/
http://www.blogsforfredthompson.com/romney-massachusetts-health-plan-included-50-abortions

[Hoodat]

Still backtracking, I see. Show me where Mitt Romney endorsed $50 abortions.

btw, Massachusetts state law mandates that abortions be covered under any state health care plan. It's been that way since the Moe decision in 1981. Are you really trying to pin that on Romney?

[ajay_kumar]

I have no problem with Commonwealthcare type programs. What you are failing to understand is that we are at this very moment paying every penny of medical care expenses for low or moderate OR RICH people. These people show up at the emergency room and not one living sole has been turned away hospital care even if they can’t pay.

So what you are ignoring is that you and me are paying EVERY SINGLE LIVING RESIDENT’s cost right now. Actually we are paying MORE than we should because these folks are forced to wait until their health problem becomes an EMERGENCY. Ask any doctor, you must know at least one, if emergency care in a hospital is more expensive than routine care delivered at a physician’s office.

So by hollering against Commonwealthcare, you are forcing me and you to pay MORE than we would. We pay the cost vis higher hospital bills and higher insurance premiums.

Is this all too deep for you by any chance?