Didn't Need That Bone Marrow Transplant Anyway

NHDP Statement on HB309 (0.00 / 0)

NHGOP Continues Attacks on Women's Health Care

Concord, NH - House Republicans voted to make further cuts to health care services for New Hampshire women last week.  The House Commerce Committee passed HB309 [Bill Text] which will allow insurance providers to refuse to cover midwife services.  Midwives can often be the most accessible safe way for many women in New Hampshire to give birth.

"HB309 will cut access to affordable health care for women and limit individual control over how women choose to give birth to their children," said Harrell Kirstein, press secretary for the New Hampshire Democratic Party.  "This bill isn't about cutting costs.  It is part of a reckless agenda aimed at cutting access to affordable health care for New Hampshire women and killing New Hampshire jobs."

Earlier this year state Republicans eliminated preventative health care services from thousands of New Hampshire women through their efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.  HB309 would force nearly two dozen birthing facilities and midwives in the Granite State out of business.

HB309 was voted out of the Commerce Committee and will now head to the full House for a vote. [gencourt.state.nh.us] New Hampshire was the 9th state in the nation to legalize and license midwifery and requires significant training, experience, and testing to become a certified midwife. [nh.gov]

"From the job killing budget to relentless attacks on health care for women, the reckless Republican agenda has been an unmitigated disaster this year," added Kirstein.  "That is why for the third straight time, polls have shown that voters view the Republican legislature as one of the top three problems facing the state."

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by: HarrellKirstein @ Mon Nov 07, 2011 at 19:59:44 PM CST

More casual cruelty (4.00 / 2)

Midwives? Are you kidding me?

Bone marrow donation testing?

Autism treatment?

Let's just shake off any sense of responsibility with a casual shrug of our shoulders.  



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Mon Nov 07, 2011 at 20:11:08 PM CST

The committee Amendment (4.00 / 2)

isn't quite as bad as the original bill.  Here is the analysis of amendment:

AMENDED ANALYSIS
     This bill:

     I.  Makes insurance coverage for certified midwives optional.
     II.  Requires utilization review for coverage for children's early intervention therapy services, diagnosis and treatment of pervasive developmental disorder or autism, and hearing aids.
     III.  Clarifies the coverage for hearing aids.
     IV.  Establishes a committee to study current New Hampshire insurance mandates.

Can someone explain to me why, if they love the Constitution so much, the right-wingers keep introducing amendments to change it?

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by: NHFlatlander @ Mon Nov 07, 2011 at 21:21:24 PM CST

yet they claim to be "pro-life." n/t (0.00 / 0)

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by: susanthe @ Tue Nov 08, 2011 at 08:40:05 AM CST

No,no.no... (4.00 / 2)

"Pro-fetal-life."  At birth, and after, you're on your own.  

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by: Lucy Edwards @ Tue Nov 08, 2011 at 09:30:50 AM CST

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Until you are near death. (0.00 / 0)

Then they are back to keeping you alive, whether that is what you want or not.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. --Marcus Aurelius, courtesy of Paul Berch

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by: Lucy Weber @ Tue Nov 08, 2011 at 13:33:04 PM CST

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That will only last (4.00 / 1)

as long as Medicare and Medicaid are there to pay the bills.  Then it's off to the ice floes for us old folks, until climate change wipes them out.  Perhaps we can keep the polar bears fed.  

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by: Lucy Edwards @ Tue Nov 08, 2011 at 13:56:11 PM CST

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I'm with you on this one (0.00 / 0)

we need to totally overhaul end-of-life care.  It's the compassionate thing to do as well as the most fiscally responsible one.

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by: Timmy J @ Tue Nov 08, 2011 at 21:49:31 PM CST

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In case anyone didn't notice... (4.00 / 1)

HB 309 as introduced, as well as amended only repeals insurance mandates that were inacted when the Democrats were running the Legislature. Chairman Hunt apparently isn't concerned with the costs to insurers or the insured by the mandates that were passed under his previous tenure as chair of House Commerce.
How blatant can these people get?  

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by: Legal Beagle @ Tue Nov 08, 2011 at 14:05:57 PM CST

O'Brien, Hunt et al (4.00 / 3)

O'Brien, Hunt and their colleagues should re-read the NH Constitution:

Part 1, Article 1:

All men are born equally free and independent; therefore, all government of right originates from the people, is founded in consent, and instituted for the general good.

Part 1, Article 10:

Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

They forget the purpose of government. I'm not suggesting a revolution; I'm suggesting throwing them all out at the next election because they have subordinated their desire not to pay taxes to the needs of the community and the general good.




"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Tue Nov 08, 2011 at 16:10:32 PM CST

Excuse me (4.00 / 3)

They hafve subordinated the needs of the community and the general good to their desire not to pay taxes.  



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Tue Nov 08, 2011 at 16:11:33 PM CST

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Looks like a job for (4.00 / 1)

OCCUPY NEW HAMPSHIRE!

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by: Lucy Edwards @ Wed Nov 09, 2011 at 08:09:11 AM CST

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But, of course... (0.00 / 0)

our health insurance premiums will drop!

(Full disclosure: I was intimately involved in the passage of all these mandates.)

JillSH

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by: JillSH @ Wed Nov 09, 2011 at 09:58:41 AM CST

It Must Be Great... (0.00 / 0)

...to be healthy and wealthy.

In the World of Tea Partiers, Free Staters, and Right-Wing Repubulicans, there's not a thing to worry about except protecting your piece of the summit of the mountain.

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by: Rep. Jim Splaine @ Thu Nov 10, 2011 at 06:18:57 AM CST

The last time the GOP cared about you (4.00 / 3)

You were a fetus

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by: tchair @ Thu Nov 10, 2011 at 07:59:50 AM CST

Speaking of fetus... (0.00 / 0)

New study shows autism may start pre-birth.

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/...

So it's not an education problem. It's a medical problem.

But insurers won't cover diagnosis and treatment?

JillSH

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by: JillSH @ Thu Nov 10, 2011 at 09:50:57 AM CST

Amazing disconnect.. (4.00 / 1)

that they can reject the science of evolution while embracing the notion of survival of the fittest...

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by: Tully Fitzsimmons @ Thu Nov 10, 2011 at 10:36:08 AM CST

Ask some one that disputes Darwin this (0.00 / 0)

Did you get a flu shot last year?
Are you going to get one this year?
Why?

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by: tchair @ Thu Nov 10, 2011 at 20:49:03 PM CST