Last night, the United States Senate voted 54-to-45 to kill an amendment by Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT). The Nelson/Hatch amendment would have prohibited taxpayer dollars from subsidizing abortions in ObamaCare. This vote virtually guarantees that the socialized medicine scheme will use your hard-earned money to pay for the destruction of innocent life. This vote comes in spite of the fact that two polls last month conducted by the liberal media found that 61% of the American people oppose taxpayer-funding of abortion.

It is also being reported that Senate Democrats have reached a breakthrough on the public option. According to various reports, the deal involves expanding Medicare to include uninsured individuals 55 years old or older, some combination of private and non-profit health insurance options as well as a public option trigger. There are several problems with this approach, including that Democrats are proposing to expand Medicare while cutting half a trillion dollars from its budget.