RNC health insurance plan covers abortion
You remember all that grandstanding over the issue of abortion and the Stupak Amendment by Republicans on Saturday? Turns out the health insurance plan that the Republican National Committee offers employees covers the controversial procedure:
The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.”According to Politico, the RNC will take steps to rectify the issue. Still though, how do they miss something like that?Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents for the company said that the RNC’s policy covers elective abortion.
Informed of the coverage, RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho told Politico that the policy pre-dates the tenure of current RNC Chairman Michael Steele.
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According to several Cigna employees, the insurer offers its customers the opportunity to opt out of abortion coverage – and the RNC did not choose to opt out.
