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http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2013/06/06/plan-to-deny-women-prenatal-care-deals-double-blow-to-reproductive-health-care/Published on June 6th, 2013
Written by: Paige Johnson
Cuts in maternity care trigger cuts in family planning
The North Carolina Senates move to deny pregnant women Medicaid coverage for prenatal care betrays a shocking lack of compassion. It also shows a willful ignorance of the tremendous strides our state has made in improving healthy birth outcomes for moms and infants.
Moreover, the move suggests our legislators care more about fast-tracking their political agenda than thinking through the unintended consequences of denying thousands of North Carolinians health care.
One such consequence is that reducing Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women will automatically lower the income eligibility for our states successful Be Smart Family Planning program that provides no-cost birth control, STD testing and life-saving cancer screening to tens of thousands of women and men in our state every year.
North Carolina is in the process of revamping the Be Smart Family Planning Program so that more individuals can obtain essential family planning services. But if the Senates provision goes through, it could thwart those efforts and restrict eligibility for Be Smart.
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atreides1
(16,046 posts)This all lies at the feet of those North Carolinians who let their hatred and fanaticism guide their votes.
By allowing their emotions to get the better of them they have condemned many who are poor, disabled, and elderly...those who voted for this will suffer along with everyone else!
Just another example of what the Tea Party really is...an evil organization of men and women who hate anything that doesn't meet their delusional set of standards!
G_j
(40,366 posts)and deliberately hurting as many people as they can. it's insane.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Since it's no longer legal to simply take them out in the back forty and shoot them, this is the next best thing.
Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)cap
(7,170 posts)Texas tried the same thing and then repealed it after they got the bill. No family planning led to an increase of $233 million in Medicaid.
Kinda busted their lil ol budget. So in these hard times, they decided they couldn't afford to be as prolife as all that.
catbyte
(34,170 posts)Disgusting.
justice1
(795 posts)The medical field profits by gouging people, and garnishing wages, leaving the people little to live on.The banks profit from overdraft fees, and charging more for credit. The Republicans don't want people to be able to pull themselves up by their boot straps. I would venture to guess, it costs taxpayers more money to keep people down, than it does to help them up.