Many people do not realize that rationing must include Federal funding for abortions. It is the law and unless an amendment in the various bills explicitly restricts abortion funding, it will be included. I noted this point when Senator Claire McCaskill stated, correctly, in another Town Hall meeting that abortion is not mentioned in the various bills in Congress: exactly. The pro-rationing forces do not want it mentioned or it may engender debate about Federal funding for abortion.
In the Town Hall Q&A a constituent asks Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA 16) to explain why rationing will cover abortions when at least 90% of them are not medically necessary — in other words, the kind of elective surgery that insurance plans usually don’t cover. CA-16 is a heavily Democratic district and she states truthfully: abortion will be Federally funded with rationing, and personally, she believes it should be so.