My thoughts:
1) Governments that believe they should provide police protection and firefighters should provide health care with the same rationale: it helps society by helping individuals. It taxes the community as a whole to provide an overall level of security of quality of life.
Exact details of what should & shouldn't be covered, like exact details of what constitutes a crime, should be negotiated by the people, with the advice of medical experts. Should *not* be decided by health care providers (or worse, insurance companies), any more than police departments should decide what crimes they will enforce, or firefighters should decide what neighborhoods or types of buildings they will protect.
2) The bill as passed will have some very ugly long-term effects. By excluding the option of abortion funding from it, and forcing insurance companies to carry that as an extra rider, many of them won't bother. And removing abortions from available medical services, whether by law or economic means, is going to cause:
- attempted home abortions with *hideous* side effects,
- abandoned infants,
- infants dead through neglect or abuse,
- a rise in shaken-baby syndrome,
- a rise in fetal alcohol syndrome,
- a rise in the number of college-age women demanding tubal ligations. (No idea whether they'll get them or not, or what other effects that'll have.)
This could almost all be avoided by increasing fertility awareness and widespread distribution of various birth control methods. That's not going to happen.
3) My husband may actually be willing to visit a doctor for the first time in a couple of decades, now that we're not worried he'll be denied care for "pre-existing conditions" if my job ever changes.