Yay! Healthcare! We Have...wha? WTF, Stupak?

Two Things about Healthcare:

1.) Yes! Thank God for the following (via Feministing and the BBC, parenthesis mine):

• Expand coverage to 32 million uninsured in the U.S.
• Create insurance exchanges. The uninsured, self-employed and small businesses could purchase insurance through state-based exchanges. There are subsidies to help purchase insurance through the exchange for those who make between 100 and 400 percent of the federal poverty level.
• Expand Medicaid to cover those who make up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for Medicaid.
• Close the so-called Medicare "doughnut hole," a costly gap in prescription drug coverage for seniors.
• Ban higher premiums and denial of coverage because of preexisting conditions.
• Ban higher premiums for women.
  

(Being a woman is no longer considered a preexisting condition for higher cost -- since us ladies are always gettin' ourselves domestically abused and havin' babies and whatnot. What were we thinking?)

• Require coverage of maternity care.
• Allow children to continue being covered by their parent's plans through age 26.

(This takes into account that most college graduates do not immediately find jobs, or work entry level jobs that do not offer health care. AND takes into account that not everyone goes to college or University, but perhaps trade school or is in the arts, a field that offers a heaping dose of poverty with creative fulfillment.)

• With some exceptions, require all U.S. citizens to purchase insurance or face a $695 annual fine.

• Require those with 50 or more employees to insurance or pay a $2000 fine per employee every year if any employee receives federal subsidies for purchasing insurance. The actual employer mandate was removed by the Senate.
• Ban undocumented immigrants from purchasing insurance with their own money in the new exchanges.

(All of this will hopefully change the following statistics for the better:)

2.) But...

• Ban the use of federal funds to pay for abortion in the exchange, which experts say will eventually eliminate even private insurance coverage for abortion.

So, yay, healthcare, kinda, unless you're a poor woman who chooses to have a legal abortion, which is a medical procedure. Then, well, good luck to ya.