Texas officially removes Planned Parenthood from Medicaid

[TexasTowelie]

Source: Dallas Morning News

AUSTIN Texas officially removed Planned Parenthood from the state's Medicaid program Tuesday, according to a report from the Texas Tribune.

A legal notice obtained by the Tribune said the $3 million in Medicaid reimbursements the organization received in 2015 will be cancelled in 30 days. Planned Parenthood could request a hearing with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to delay the cutoff date, but officials told the Tribune they would resolve the matter in court.

"Planned Parenthood continues to serve Medicaid patients and will seek a preliminary injunction in an ongoing lawsuit filed in November 2015, following the state's original threats to take action against Planned Parenthood's patients," Yvonne Gutierrez, executive director of Planned Parenthood Texas Votes, told the Tribune.

The state has been looking to completely remove Planned Parenthood from the state's Medicaid program since October, after a series of undercover videos was released that showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing the use of fetal tissue for research.

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-politics/2016/12/20/texas-officially-removes-planned-parenthood-medicaid

[Xipe Totec]

1. Texas - Where stupidity still thinks it's a match to reality. ny

[RKP5637]

3. Stupid just seems to be indelible. n/t

[joshdawg]

23. What is one to expect from

a republican-controlled state government? They epitomize stupidity.

[hrmjustin]

2. Texas's message to woman is you don't count.

[egold2604]

4. Gee, Pence did that in Indiana and had one of the state's largest outbreak of HIV in its history

[Freethinker65]

5. Goodbye PP and affordable reproductive health and hello Zika virus

[mopinko]

6. like hell

series of undercover videos was released that showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing the use of fetal tissue for research.

bullshit, too.

[Grassy Knoll]

7. Texas Doesn't Sell Preparation H Either...

...Because Of All The Perfect ASSHOLE Republicans.

[democratisphere]

8. Looking forward to the day the "Republic of Texas"

is no longer part of the USA. It will be a be a good start.

[tammywammy]

10. Fuck that shit.

How about lifting a fucking finger to help us democrats in Texas.

[democratisphere]

19. I'll give you more than finger

How about my two arms and hands to help you move to a blue state. Do mess with Texas.

[LanternWaste]

35. Ineffectual and petulant keyboard commandos are very, very tough....

" Do mess with Texas...

Ineffectual and petulant keyboard commandos are very, very tough... in allegation if not in actual deed.

Your online courage of course, will be allowed all the consideration it indeed and in fact, warrants.

[atreides1]

30. Such as?

Texas is so gerrymandered, that it will take decades to readjust it...and the next census in 4 years, will only make it worse!

Add to that, the guns and Jesus crowd, the racists, bigots, men that hate women, women that hate other women, and a state legislature controlled by "God's" chosen...Texas needs more then fingers!

[Dustlawyer]

27. As long as you have to come with us!

Were it not for Tom Delay's gerrymandering we would be blue. The 50 state strategy was working here until it was taken away. There are a lot of loyal Democrats you seem to be glad to see go.

Well, we ain't leaving, get used to it!

[atreides1]

29. A lot of loyal Democrats in Texas

But not enough to effect change, unfortunately!

[Dustlawyer]

33. Evidently not on your time table.

It will take registering a lot of voters in South Texas who tend to vote Democrat. We have a hurdle to overcome the gerrymandering which is extreme, but the demographics are changing our way and it will happen.

If we get a DNC that is prepared to fight in all 50 states instead of ignoring all but the "battleground states" we can turn Texas blue. That would change the whole dynamic of any future election and get the far RW out of office!

[LanternWaste]

36. No doubt, the long view is difficult for the short-sighted.

No doubt, the long view is a rather difficult discipline indeed for the near-sighted.

[TexasBushwhacker]

9. And again the GOP proves that they hate POOR PEOPLE n/t

[MurrayDelph]

20. Of course they don't; they are way too busy

congratulating themselves on their Christianity.

[zippythepinhead]

11. I would invest in companies that made steel coat hanger

meh.

[Solly Mack]

12. Stupid, evil, cruel assholes.

[littlemissmartypants]

16. Yep. Sums it up nicely. eom

[Javaman]

13. the "undercover videos" were bullshit by that asshole o'keefe.

what a bunch of dumb fucking bastards.

[waddirum]

17. It wasn't O'Keefe

but one of the other ratfuckers.

[Rex]

14. Because Jesus said so.

Conservative Family Values on display. They are shitty people.

[TaterBake]

15. Texas Where Half The People Think The World Is 6,000 Years Old

According to a poll I saw.

Jeezusscum.

[littlemissmartypants]

18. Brace for the clap.

Without the clap off benefits. Epic SDTs starting in 3...2...1...

Silly Texas. Your ride is here.

[SunSeeker]

21. Denying poor women access to birth control will result in increased need for welfare.

Of course, they did not budget for that. To Republicans, it's a holy muracle of life before the birth; but after the birth, it's a sniveling little welfare cheat.

[littlemissmartypants]

22. Of course it will & they know it. They dont give a damn.

Despicable. Sticking it to the women and children, one more time. We're sleeping with the enemy now.

[iluvtennis]

25. +1 nt

[TexasTowelie]

26. They expect to avoid that by subjecting the women (and the men too if they can be found)

to drug testing. See the thread that I posted in the Texas Group about the "new" bill that has been filed regarding TANF.

[SunSeeker]

38. Like all GOP ideas, this has been tried before and failed.

In every state that tried drug testing of welfare recipients, they found that a smaller percentage of welfare recipients use drugs than the general population, and that drug testing is very costly, with no benefits to taxpayers.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/thinkprogress.org/amp/p/c346e0b4305d

[iluvtennis]

24. SMH n/t

[wordpix]

28. more unwanted children poor parents can't care for

So they often end up without good role models and filling the jails.

Good job, repukelicants

[haele]

32. More people in prison means better returns on investment in CCA and other prison industries.

Plus, if the person in prison is a "trustee", he or she can be rented out for light manufacturing and call center at $1.25 an hour or so plus overhead - and each dollar earned will be turned over to the prison accounting to pay for the individual's security, housing, clothing, and food - oh, and maybe as payment for individual health insurance access to a PA or a NP and an ambulance/emergency clinic medical set-up that handles the entire medical department for the prison.

Nice revenue stream for the corporations - who probably won't be paying tax for operating in the state. And a way to deal with an over-abundance of the under-educated disposable population that there will no longer be living-wage paying jobs for due to technology, outsourcing and other profit-enhancing business measures.

The National Religion has become the worship of Christ-Mammon.

Haele

[Dave Starsky]

34. Isn't this the same state that discovered...

That their "abstinence only" sex ed policy was knocking up their teenage girls at a rate not seen in decades?

Some people never learn.

[sakabatou]

37. Fucking hell