Cutting Planned Parenthood Would Increase Medicaid Births, C.B.O. Says

[smilesammich 10,727]

more from the land of duh, otherwise known as 'the most obvious thing ever'

 

Quote

Planned Parenthood has long been a target of conservatives for being a leading provider of abortions in the United States, although abortions make up a small percentage of its services, which are more likely to include birth control and screening for sexually transmitted diseases. In fact, many of its clinics do not perform abortions; in Wisconsin, for example, only two of the organization’s 21 clinics do. Federal funding is never used to pay for them; since 1977, a law known as the Hyde Amendment has prohibited using federal money for abortions.

The Republican health bill would defund Planned Parenthood for one year. An earlier analysis by the C.B.O. estimated that permanently defunding the organization, as Republicans would like to do, would increase Medicaid spending by even more — $130 million over the next 10 years.

Republicans said they would make up the $500 million they are cutting from Planned Parenthood by giving an extra $422 million to federally qualified health clinics. Speaker Paul D. Ryan argues that those clinics have a “vast larger network” in “virtually every community” and provide health care to women with less controversy than Planned Parenthood, because they do not provide abortions.

But across the country, one in five counties served by Planned Parenthood have no federally qualified health clinics, according to the earlier C.B.O. analysis — including two counties in Mr. Ryan’s district in Wisconsin. The C.B.O. estimates that in those areas, cuts to Planned Parenthood would result in 15 percent of women losing access to health care.

so so stupid gop

[Umka36 781]

A large portion of US births are already financed by Medicaid.

 

http://kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/births-financed-by-medicaid/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel={"colId":"Location","sort":"asc"}

 

 

 

[smilesammich 10,727]

Quote

Babies born to Medicaid mothers become some of the program’s highest-cost beneficiaries, which increases the cost of the trade-off with family planning, said Sara Rosenbaum, a professor of health policy at George Washington University who has long studied community health centers.

“You’re trading a highly cost-effective benefit for a relatively high-cost population, and the cost of that population is even greater when the pregnancy is unplanned,” she said. “It’s a double whammy.”

 

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

But val... will noone think of the babbies??? 

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

8 minutes ago, elmcitymaven said:

But val... will noone think of the babbies??? 

I love your New sig Picture. Being a gold account member I find it raunchy in a nice kind of way 

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

3 hours ago, smilesammich said:

more from the land of duh, otherwise known as 'the most obvious thing ever'

 

so so stupid gop

I thought you were all for free health care 

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

4 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

I love your New sig Picture. Being a gold account member I find it raunchy in a nice kind of way 

Excellent. I knew there would be an audience for my supersekret stash of Kellyanne Conway glamour shots.

[smilesammich 10,727]

 

9 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

I thought you were all for free health care 

what does that have to do with the op? medicaid isn't free health care, not sure what you mean.

 

unless you're trying to set me up to go on a tangent on how nothing is free..

[OriZ 3,165]

2 hours ago, smilesammich said:

 

what does that have to do with the op? medicaid isn't free health care, not sure what you mean.

 

unless you're trying to set me up to go on a tangent on how nothing is free..

????

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

9 minutes ago, OriZ said:

????

MDL been on a roll today. They found out Trump paid a lot of Income Taxes and they are confused 

[smilesammich 10,727]

1 hour ago, OriZ said:

????

as in, i pay into it but it's benefits are inaccessible to me. if paul has his way, it will always be inaccessible to me. similarly, social security.

[OriZ 3,165]

24 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

as in, i pay into it but it's benefits are inaccessible to me. if paul has his way, it will always be inaccessible to me. similarly, social security.

Wouldn't it be nice if they didn't force you to pay into it to start with? To me the idea of being forced to pay into social security whether or not you actually get benefits(and that's becoming questionable but even without it) is horrible. I know someone who's been paying into it for decades, but they don't have enough credits to get disability, so they have to keep working till they do, even though they've put so much into it you'd think they should be able to deserve disability by now. Just horrid concept. One of those things that make ya wonder why no one has ever rebelled against it yet.

Edited March 16, 2017 by OriZ

[smilesammich 10,727]

11 minutes ago, OriZ said:

Wouldn't it be nice if they didn't force you to pay into it to start with? To me the idea of being forced to pay into social security whether or not you actually get benefits(and that's becoming questionable but even without it) is horrible. I know someone who's been paying into it for decades, but they don't have enough credits to get disability, so they have to keep working till they do, even though they've put so much into it you'd think they should be able to deserve disability by now. Just horrid concept. One of those things that make ya wonder why no one has ever rebelled against it yet.

imo we need ss and medicaid, i don't mind paying into them i just want the benefits when the time comes. thus far, hasn't worked out that way. 

[OriZ 3,165]

23 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

imo we need ss and medicaid, i don't mind paying into them i just want the benefits when the time comes. thus far, hasn't worked out that way. 

That's not the issue, the issue is whether or not you should be forced to pay into ss, medicaid or any other health insurance, especially when there's no guarantee you'll actually end up getting the benefits. Something like ss should be more of a choice imo, and if you don't pay you just don't get benefits, if you do you do. 

[TBoneTX 47,545]

Social Security = Ponzi scheme