How do you feel about the quality of this reporting on the front-page of the New York Times?
Some issues that could swing blocs of votes, like insurance coverage for abortions, remain unresolved. House Democratic leaders said they had suspended their efforts to reach a compromise with party members who oppose abortion and the use of federal money to subsidize insurance that includes coverage of the procedure. That could cost them the votes of some House Democrats who supported the health care bill in the fall after it was amended to impose tight restrictions on abortion coverage.
I guess it is technically true that at least one Democrat feels that the Senate health care bill provides money for abortions, but that doesn’t mean that it actually does. It doesn’t. This is also in today’s Times:
According to the National Catholic Reporter, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, a Washington-based advocacy group, sent a letter to members of Congress on Friday urging support for the Senate-passed health care bill and expressing its view that the bill contains sufficient provisions to prevent the use of federal money to pay for insurance coverage of abortions.
The story caught the attention of the White House, which sought to publicize it on Friday evening.
But, right there on the front-page of the supposedly liberal New York Times is the suggestion that abortions will be covered. I can’t read it any other way.
