Susan G. Komen for the Cure just cut funding to Planned Parenthood for breast health screenings, bowing to anti-choice pressure and making breast health care suddenly inaccessible to many women.
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Maybe they will just have to go somewhere else to get their free screening?
I think you silly women make too much of this nonissue.
No, this is NOT a joke. Hospitals etc MAY reduce charges for low-income patients, but they always refer patients to Planned Parenthood because they cannot offer those specific services for as reduced a fee, even after other funding programs have been exhausted.
If you doubt this, send a friend to a regular gynecologist without insurance and see what happens. It will work even better if the friend is between the ages of 17-20.[/quote]
Low-income patients would get the services performed by non-PP entities (like the ones described above) and the tab (part of it or all of it) would get picked up my Medicaid in the exact same way it would had that woman gone to PP. And, of course, the state coverage adds to that.
If a Medicaid patient can’t afford the balance (i.e, if Medicaid and the state coverage doesn’t cover it all), the additional funding provided by the likes of Susan Komen, etc. can just as easily be provided for use at these other facilities. PP isn’t the only game in town.
This charity decided it did not want to donate funds to an organization that is under investigation for financial impropriety…how is that trying to harm women?
And what right do you have of accusing them of harming women? How can you tell them what to do with THEIR money?
FTR I support a women’s right to choose…but you need to stop rubbing Rachel Maddow to get your news.
I posted the link above so hopefully a few more people would sign it and I understand that a lot of people in this section and on this website are 1. Too conservative to consider it 2. Not concerned about women 3. Have never tried to get medical coverage for this kind of service without insurance.
The above link DOES NOT threaten to cut off funding for the SBK foundation, it is just a statement of political supposrt for Planned Parenthood. If Susan B Komen’s decision WAS purely monetary, signing the above link will not do anything to change it. On the other hand, if it was very much political, signing the petition will assure SBK that Planned Parenthood will not ruin their public imagine. https://www.cms.gov/MedicaidEligibility/
Most young people don’t qualify for medicaid- if you’re working full time you don’t qualify, even if you can’t afford insurance. I encourage you to look into the options for someone who is making a little over poverty amounts who still can’t afford insurance. On that note, they are a little better of late, thanks to Obama’s Health Care Initiative.
I hope a few people sign the petition. Thanks for reading.
[quote]Oleena wrote:
I posted the link above so hopefully a few more people would sign it and I understand that a lot of people in this section and on this website are 1. Too conservative to consider it 2. Not concerned about women 3. Have never tried to get medical coverage for this kind of service without insurance.
The above link DOES NOT threaten to cut off funding for the SBK foundation, it is just a statement of political supposrt for Planned Parenthood. If Susan B Komen’s decision WAS purely monetary, signing the above link will not do anything to change it. On the other hand, if it was very much political, signing the petition will assure SBK that Planned Parenthood will not ruin their public imagine. https://www.cms.gov/MedicaidEligibility/
Most young people don’t qualify for medicaid- if you’re working full time you don’t qualify, even if you can’t afford insurance. I encourage you to look into the options for someone who is making a little over poverty amounts who still can’t afford insurance. On that note, they are a little better of late, thanks to Obama’s Health Care Initiative.
I hope a few people sign the petition. Thanks for reading.[/quote]
While I agree with some of this…Planned Parenthood has played the political game to the fullest when it comes to funding. Unfortunately they are now paying the price…the “if you don’t support PP you don’t support women” argument gets old fast.
The PP here in my town closed, because the main health care provider in the state…IHC…
does not charge for services for those who cannot pay.
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
If a person actually considers abortion to be the death of a child, how can any good they do make up for that? If a charity practiced what you considered murder would you want to give them money? Even if that murdering they did was a really small part of their services?
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Where private funds are concerned I totally agree.
If we limit public funding to only those things people have no moral quarrel with, we would be back to constitutional restraint.
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
If a person actually considers abortion to be the death of a child, how can any good they do make up for that? If a charity practiced what you considered murder would you want to give them money? Even if that murdering they did was a really small part of their services?
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Where private funds are concerned I totally agree.
If we limit public funding to only those things people have no moral quarrel with, we would be back to constitutional restraint. [/quote]
You think public funding should be available for what a large percentage of the population consider murder?
[quote]Oleena wrote:
I posted the link above so hopefully a few more people would sign it and I understand that a lot of people in this section and on this website are 1. Too conservative to consider it 2. Not concerned about women 3. Have never tried to get medical coverage for this kind of service without insurance.
The above link DOES NOT threaten to cut off funding for the SBK foundation, it is just a statement of political supposrt for Planned Parenthood. If Susan B Komen’s decision WAS purely monetary, signing the above link will not do anything to change it. On the other hand, if it was very much political, signing the petition will assure SBK that Planned Parenthood will not ruin their public imagine. https://www.cms.gov/MedicaidEligibility/
Most young people don’t qualify for medicaid- if you’re working full time you don’t qualify, even if you can’t afford insurance. I encourage you to look into the options for someone who is making a little over poverty amounts who still can’t afford insurance. On that note, they are a little better of late, thanks to Obama’s Health Care Initiative.
I hope a few people sign the petition. Thanks for reading.[/quote]
For a charity functioning on donations, public image and funds are the same thing. What exactly does “too conservative” to sign the petition mean?
I can out guilt trip the OP. If you don’t give all your income to the charity of my choice in the first place, you’re evil. Hey maybe without the abortion baggage, women related charities might even start receiving more donations.
[quote]Oleena wrote:
I posted the link above so hopefully a few more people would sign it and I understand that a lot of people in this section and on this website are 1. Too conservative to consider it 2. Not concerned about women 3. Have never tried to get medical coverage for this kind of service without insurance.
The above link DOES NOT threaten to cut off funding for the SBK foundation, it is just a statement of political supposrt for Planned Parenthood. If Susan B Komen’s decision WAS purely monetary, signing the above link will not do anything to change it. On the other hand, if it was very much political, signing the petition will assure SBK that Planned Parenthood will not ruin their public imagine. https://www.cms.gov/MedicaidEligibility/
Most young people don’t qualify for medicaid- if you’re working full time you don’t qualify, even if you can’t afford insurance. I encourage you to look into the options for someone who is making a little over poverty amounts who still can’t afford insurance. On that note, they are a little better of late, thanks to Obama’s Health Care Initiative.
I hope a few people sign the petition. Thanks for reading.[/quote]
For a charity functioning on donations, public image and funds are the same thing. What exactly does “too conservative” to sign the petition mean?[/quote]
Why play her game? PP does lots and lots of abortions. That’s what’s important to her. Not mammograms or PAP smears. Folks, don’t LET people string you along.
[quote]Oleena wrote: looks around Is there a conservative who hasn’t commented yet? Where’s Push? lol.[/quote]
I am not really a conservative but there are some things I am allergic too and blatant bullshitting is one of them.
As was previously mentioned, you reap what you sow, and they sowed a climate where they were very much identified with a liberal agenda.
Maybe, just maybe, if their leadership had cared less about being fawned over at cocktail parties and more about trying to provide a broad array of uncontroversial services they would not be lauded as heroes by limousine liberals but could do a solid job day in and day out.
They chose to be part of a movement, some donors dont approve.
It is regrettable if poor women are caught in the crossfire.
So why did Planned Parenthood lose funding? Brinker says it has to do with the fact that they do not provide mammograms to women, but only provide mammogram referrals. â??It was nothing they were doing wrong,â?? she explained. â??We have decided not to fund, whereever possible, pass-through grants. We were giving them money, they were sending women out for mammograms. What we would like to have are clinics where we can directly fund mammograms.â??
How about that? Planned Parenthood doesn’t do mammograms, and the money will be diverted to clinics that do. So much for the narrative that “women are being denied services and there is nowhere else to turn!”.
I don’t partcularly care about the services Planned Parenthood offers as they related to Planned Parenthood, because these services are offered by tons of other organizations. It’s not as though women have Planned Parenthood or no option at all. R
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What other organizations are these services offered by and how many women have access to them in comparison with Planned Parenthood?
I can tell you than in the town where I currently live, Planned Parenthood is the ONLY place where a woman can receive affordable basic procedures. This is the case for a several hundred mile radius in all directions.[/quote]
why is that a private charity’s concern?