yeah, that would be medicare and Medicaid fraud then. hiding behind killings and calling it "services", billing for services not rendered, somebody needs jail time
Branstad champions idea of defunding Planned Parenthood
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You filtered that for FY13 and FY14, so it's probably closer to 50 million annually according to your link, which is what I seem to remember reading in the past.
You don't want the government picking winners and losers, but not allowing planned parenthood to receive medicaid reimbursements like their competitors is precisely the government picking winners and losers.
I don't necessarily think the Title X works that away. I don't think a person can just go anywhere and say I want this covered under Title X. I think providers need to apply to get the Title X funding beforehand. So I guess to answer your question we'd need to know how much competition there is for the Title X funding. Using Ames for example, if PP is the only provider offering services covered under Title X, is that because they are the only ones HHS chose to give funds to, or is PP the only one that applied for funds. Do Mary Greeley and McFarland Clinic want Title X funding but were denied? If PP loses it's funding or closes, do we know that other places are wanting those patients?
Also, in your scenario, if PP just closes, do we have enough doctors everywhere to take all these new patients? I remember reading a lot during obamacare debates that we were going to have a shortage of doctors. Would that be an issue? I've read before that lots of doctors don't want to take medicaid because the reimbursement rates are so low.
these monies are not used for what you think they are..........PP has been audited time and timer again regarding this and never been charged with using "federal monies" for abortion....Jeeeebus Keeerist OiT, do you realize how many times these folks who are using MedicAid and MediCare $$ are audited......and EVERY complaint lodged IS investigated by the State and NOT by the Feds?
and I bet every cent of "that" Federal money is accounted for and I bet none of it is used for what you think it is. Feds fund healthcare across this nation at all levels. It's what they do. Perhaps you favor the Feds not giving any one or any institution any funds at all?
I mean, what does "your chart" show? Dispersements to PP? For services rendered?
What do I think that money is used for?
I'm just saying that they are propped up by government handouts.
we piss away far more annually to folks we don't even know about. What's this...just more evidence of corporate welfare. And 22...what is this money being disbursed for? It probably is all legit.
So you support corporate welfare when it's convenient to you.
It's evidence of blind big government spending. But, I know you're a fan of that too.
Those monies are not given due to any service rendered. Or, they would be categorized as revenue.
It's not revenue.
PP is like any other "non-profit".......governed by the same rules. Hospitals, Red Cross, United Way, etc......
I think Branstad might be working the non-funding of PP to make his "modernization" of Iowa's MedicAid program financially viable. Right now, with the delays of implementation his fiscal year budget is going to reflect serious shortfalls due to increased costs (according to his projections) and the decline of revenue due to lower than anticipated crop revenues.
Terry's budget is in trouble and he is frantically looking for ways to balance the books. He is willing to rob Peter to pay Paul and let the next administration (a Democrat) deal with the mess by his kicking the can down the road. Not funding PP would allow him to save some "real" money and prop up his budget that is in reality no more than a house of cards.
Terry's budget is in trouble and he is frantically looking for ways to balance the books. He is willing to rob Peter to pay Paul and let the next administration (a Democrat) deal with the mess by his kicking the can down the road. Not funding PP would allow him to save some "real" money and prop up his budget that is in reality no more than a house of cards.
They are categorized as revenue. Here's a link to their anual report.
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/6714/1996/2641/2013-2014_Annual_Report_FINAL_WEB_VERSION.pdf
Under the section for revenue, they list 528 million in "Government Health Services Grants & Reimbursements".
Oh, I thought the de-funding idea came from people's outrage that Planned Parenthood was caught selling aborted body parts, not the fact that they performed abortions and other women's health services.
Not so much "made up" as much as they were heavily edited. Lots of cutting and splicing.....
yes. this is what you believe because this is the standard line. except the entire unedited videos are out there. except that. and the people are talking about using the money to buy a Ferrari. and how they can selectively cut without destroying body parts, salvaging them like car parts in a junkyard.
The problem with you is that you're both batshit crazy and apparently intellectually deficient.
Why is that?
because how would we know it was edited if we didn't have the whole un-edited version to compare it with? except, of course, the stops and pauses
Lots of shitty companies would stay solvent with a $50 mil hand out from all of us.
I'm just making a blanket statement that you're both batshit crazy and intellectually deficient. Cut-n-paste you frickin moron.
in Ottumwa, when I was growing up, we used to have this dog which came around, he made the rounds. we named him, "governor"
So? Your point is that Ottumwa made you batshit crazy & intellectually deficient?
well yes, of course, I wish to write a book about it. call it "the Ottumwa experiment"
