Oklahoma is ending contracts with Planned Parenthood
What do you do when your state has the second highest teen birth rate in the nation? That’s easy. You encourage the state Medicaid agency to end its contract with Planned Parenthood.
According to KOCO.com:
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) —Oklahoma is ending its contracts with two Planned Parenthood organizations that provide health services to thousands of mostly low-income women and families, the head of the state’s Medicaid agency said Wednesday.
Oklahoma Health Care Authority Chief Executive Officer Nico Gomez said the agency notified Planned Parenthood of Central Oklahoma and Planned Parenthood of Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma in February of its intent to terminate provider agreements with the two affiliates.
“My decision in February was made based upon what I firmly believe to be the best interests of this agency going forward,” Gomez told The Associated Press in a statement.
The state contracts with the two affiliates will remain in place until June 29, which Gomez said should provide members obtaining services at Planned Parenthood clinics time to make any necessary alternative arrangements.
Necessary alternative arrangements? Can you give me an idea of how many clinics are available to provide routine cancer screenings, birth control, STD testing, and immunizations? How far away are these clinics? Does traveling to these clinics provide some kind of hardship to these patients? And if someone knows and trusts the physicians they’ve been seeing at Planned Parenthood, isn’t it kind of a shitty thing to do to make them go elsewhere? There better be a good reason for this:
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http://www.thelostogle.com/2016/05/05/the-state-medicaid-agency-is-ending-contracts-with-planned-parenthood/
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