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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Likely to lose coverage under the ACA because our subsidies will be eliminated and we can't afford the premiums. Too much income to get Medicaid, which will be decimated as well in our state.

Basically we will have no health coverage. [/quote]

What does "can't afford the premiums" mean?  You spend too much elsewhere and don't want to spend less so that you can reallocate money to health insurance?  You don't want a less expensive insurance plan?

I suspect you have the money to pay for health care, but you don't want to cut back on other spending in order to do so.  That's nobody's choice but yours.   [/quote]

A medically fragile child with less Medicaid can ruin the finances of a hard working family in no time. And tighter abortion laws mean more medically fragile children being born. What are your solutions for those families?[/quote]

To be blunt, don't have children without a plan for how you're going to support the ensuing family financially, including paying for their health care needs.  [/quote]

Well, then don’t restrict abortions[/quote]

How about practicing birth control through other means than abortion?  Of course, that requires a modicum of self-control.  [/quote]

Because what PP is responding to is medically fragile children.  In some cases you can detect serious issues in the ultrasound.  Birth control doesn't fix the problem that banning abortions but then also defending Medicaid leaves someone with day, a Trisomy 18 pregnancy absolutely screwed.  Their child will have a short, painful, and extremely expensive life.  The government is forcing women to bring terminally ill pregnancies to term and now defending the programs that pay for the unbelievably expensive care needed.

Birth control doesn't fix the fact that wanted pregnancies can go horribly wrong.[/quote]

The edge case of people with appropriate health insurance and income to support a family who are nevertheless caught later with medical expenses which were somehow uninsured is not the big driver of social welfare costs.  It's people who voluntarily have more children than they can afford, and therefore need government support to feed and house them.  The first category is infrequent and arguably merits public support; the latter not so much.   
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And yet I personally know multiple children whose NICU stays were covered by Medicaid and two friends who had to have abortions for desperately wanted babies.  Medicaid covers nearly half of all births in the US, more than half in rural communities.

You cannot scream about the birth rate in the US dropping and simultaneously dismiss very serious concerns about childbirth and pediatric care costs as "edge cases".[/quote]

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