It’s Not Just the Public Option by Deroy Murdock on National Review Online: "The Senate Finance Committee’s Obamacare legislation is as interesting for what it lacks as for what it contains.
On Tuesday, committee members rejected two amendments that would have created a government option for health insurance. These decisions — in which five Democrats voted with Republicans — lower the pulse on a full-scale federal takeover of the health-care industry. However, the House or Senate suddenly could defibrillate this concept. So, advocates of limited-government health-care reform must remain vigilant. Unfortunately, Finance Committee Democrats have rejected numerous GOP amendments that would have infused this bill with a modicum of fiscal restraint and common sense. As a group, the specific amendments that nearly all Democrats have dismissed preview how Obamacare might look in practice, if enacted.
Rather than save taxpayers’ money by asking women to finance their abortions without federal dollars (as the Hyde Amendment has mandated since 1976), Finance Committee Democrats (minus North Dakota’s Kent Conrad) rejected Utah Republican Orrin Hatch’s amendment to prevent Obamacare’s budget from funding elective abortions or health plans that cover feticide. In the Age of Obama, Uncle Sam pays for everything."
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