Could the New Health Care Bill Overturn Roe v. Wade?

The 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade could fall into a legal battle if the the Democrats proposed Health Care Bill is enacted. Specific wording in the decision could open the flood gates.
Specifically Roe v. Wade states:
“The right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.”
The Obama health care plan intends to insert a 3rd party (i.e. Big Brother) between you and your doctor. How does this relate to the Roe decision, well, Roe v. Wade specifically forbids 3rd parties from interfering in patient-doctor relationships on the grounds of privacy and individual liberty.
You may say that this only applies to pregnant women, but I would argue that the word in Roe apply to all. Unless you believe that every living breathing human is not “viable”, then the rights afforded us by the 9th and 14th Amendments to or constitution as stated, in the Roe decision, apply to us all.
I guess every cloud has a silver lining. It's either Roe v. Wade or Socialized Medicine.
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