Health-care overhaul: Does it provide tax dollars for abortions?

Health-care overhaul: Does it provide tax dollars for abortions?: Under the Hyde Amendment, which Congress has attached to yearly spending bills since 1977, federal dollars cannot be used to directly fund abortions, except in cases of rape or incest, or where the mother's life is in danger. This prevents abortions from being covered by insurance plans for federal employees, the Tricare plans for military families and the federally funded portion of Medicaid, the health program for the poor. But the insurance system created by the new law does not lend itself to a straightforward segregation of federal funds in other plans.