I REMEBER WHEN MEDICAL INSURANCE COVERAGES  "DID NOT" INCLUDE ANY PROCEDURES WHICH WERE NOT MEDEICALLY DETERMINED TO BE NECCESARY TO CORRECT A SERIOUS MEDICAL CONDITION, ABORTIONS AND TREATMENTS THAT WERE NOT NECESSARY HAD TO BE PAID FOR THE PEOPLE ELECTING TO HAVE THEM . SURGERY TO PREVENT FURTHER PREGNANCY'S WERE COVERED ONLY WHEN THE HEALTH AND LIFE ISSUES WERE MEDICALLY DOCUMENTED.  WHEN INSURANCE COMPANIES BEGAN TO PROVIDE COVERAGES FOR ELECTIVE PROCEDURES, THE PEOPLE MAKING THOSE ELECTIVE CHOICES PAID THE ADDITIONAL PREMIUMS. WHEN ROE BECAME EFFICTIVE, ABORTIONS AND CONTRACEPTIVES WERE ELECTIVES PAID FOR BY THE INDIVIDUALS ELECTING THEM AND THOSE NOT ELECTING SUCH PROCEDURES DID NOT HAVE THEIR INSURANCE PREMIUMS EFFECTED AT ALL.  WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE LATEST ROUND OF LAWS WHICH RESULTS IN THOSE PEOPLE WHOSE MORAL BELIEFS ARE APPOSED TO THOSE ELECTIVE PROCEDURES HAVING TO SHARE THE COST OF ADDITIONAL PREMIUM COVERAGES. MOST OF THESE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE ELECTIVE PROCEDURES ARE NOT SUPER RICH OR EVEN MODERATLY AFFLUENT AND IT IS NOT FAIR FOR THOSE PEOPLE TO HAVE TO BEAR THE ADDITIONAL PREMIUM COSTS OF THOSE WHO DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT GOOD MORALS. YET, WE HAVE A PRESIDENT,  INFLUENTIAL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, AND AFFLUENT PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THAT EVERYONE SHOULD SHARE THOSE INCREASED INSURANCE COSTS. IF THEY ARE WILLING TO SHARE THE INCREASED COST OF ELECTIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES, THERE ARE MANY OTHER WAYS THAT THEY CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THOSE POOR  AND NEEDY PEOPLE WITHOUT ADDING TO THE RANKS OF THE POOR AND NEEDY BY MAKING EVERYONE SHARE THOSE COSTS.  ELECTIVE MEDEICAL PROCEDURES AND TREAMENTS SHOULD BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THOSE MAKING THE ELECTION AND THE VARIOUS OLRGINIZATIONS WHO PROMOTE THEM.

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