CBO: Defunding Planned Parenthood would lead to thousands more births
Source: The Washington Post
By Sandhya Somashekhar March 13 at 10:27 PM
A congressional plan to make Planned Parenthood ineligible for federal funding would leave many women without services to help them avoid pregnancy, resulting in thousands of additional births, according to a new federal budget analysis.
The prediction came Monday as part of a much-awaited analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which assesses the fiscal impact of major legislative bills. It was part of a more sweeping look at a congressional health care bill that would repeal and replace the law known as Obamacare.
The analysts estimated that excluding the womens health organization from the Medicaid program for one year, as congressional Republicans have proposed, would particularly affect low-income areas and communities without many health care options, leaving 15 percent of those people without services that help women avert pregnancy. Planned Parenthood provides reproductive and other services, including abortion, to 2.5 million men and women nationally.
The reduction in services would reduce federal spending on Medicaid, the state-federal program for the poor, by $178 million during 2017, the analysts estimate. But they believe the savings would be partially offset by the fact that there would be several thousand more births paid for under Medicaid, which already picks up the costs of about 45 percent of all U.S. births; many of those new babies likely would qualify for the Medicaid program.
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pstokely
(10,530 posts)white births like they really want or non white births what they don't like?
Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)...of all those white "civilization purifying" babies.
Damn these people are so obsessed and sick.
people like King and Bannon, etc. will have you getting caught in a circular trap politically and socially.
It takes more than standard thinking to respond to anything these people say or do.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)and will die before they could be useful pawns for anything?
Well I guess statistically they might get to be fillers for the for-profit prison system, is that what they are hoping?
They are just almost comically cheering on human misery, aren't they? What the fuck.
Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)I actually read that in a book.
DK504
(3,847 posts)are of less income than people with the means of a Ob-Gyn to get their needs taken care of. King is so simpleminded moron he doesn't know the demographics of PP.
When I lived in LA I wouldn't have made it with the LA Free Clinic. King doesn't seem to get that not all white folks are poor too.
Friend or Foe
(195 posts)To prove that?
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)the cost of repressing affordable birth control and criminalizing
abortion. Adding millions of unwanted children to our society has staggering monetary and social consequences. Make the GOP admit it and discuss it.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)and can fill for profit prisons!