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The state notified Planned Parenthood in early December that it will not be receiving $600,000 in funds for HIV/AIDS prevention program.
The Texas Tribune reported the Department of Health Services notified PP that a contract would not be renewed for 2016.
The same story failed to note that PP paid $4.3 million in 2013 in a court settlement over allegations of Medicaid fraud.
The government alleges that between 2003 and 2009, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast billed and was paid by government programs, Texas Medicaid, Title XX, and the Women’s Health Program, for certain items and services related to birth control counseling, STD testing and contraceptives when such items and services were either not medically necessary, not medically indicated or not actually provided. Title XX is funded by the federal government while Texas Medicaid and the Women’s Health Program are funded jointly by the federal government and the State of Texas.
Of the $4.3 million settlement, the federal government will receive $3,594,604 and the State of Texas will receive $705,396. The settlement resolves a False Claims Act lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Texas by Karen Reynolds, a former employee of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast. The whistleblower or qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act permit the relator to obtain a portion of the proceeds obtained by the government. As part of today’s resolution, Reynolds will receive $1,247,000.
All Defendants expressly deny Plaintiffs' allegations and asser that all their actions have been fully autorized under the mortgage instruments and by law. The also deny that they did anything wrong. There has been no court decision on the marits of this case and no finding that Defendants committed any wrongdoing"
Crisis pregnancy centers in California are not having much luck so far stopping a new law that they argue violates their free speech rights by forcing them to promote abortion.
A federal judge in Sacramento on Monday night upheld Assembly Bill 775, which requires any licensed facility providing pregnancy-related services to post a sign in its waiting area alerting visitors to California’s free and low-cost public programs for family planning, prenatal care and abortion. This follows a similar ruling in another lawsuit last week by a federal judge in Oakland.
The law is aimed at crisis pregnancy centers, faith-based organizations that cropped up as alternatives to abortion providers and counsel women to carry their pregnancies to term. Supporters of AB 775 – including its authors, Democratic Assembly members David Chiu of San Francisco and Autumn Burke of Marina Del Rey – argue that they pose a threat to public health by providing incomplete medical information early in women’s pregnancies.
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originally posted by: xuenchen
Good to know people are in favor of corruption.
originally posted by: Sremmos80
a reply to: xuenchen
And then they are going to wonder why their hiv/aids numbers are going to go up, which will still cost the state money...
So good thing they made this political statement!
Guess what... Oklahoma did it anyway.
Oklahoma recently passed a law in the state to incarcerate all illegal immigrants and ship them back to where they came from unless they want to get a green card and become an American citizen. They mostly all scattered. HB1804. This was against the advice of the Federal Government, and the ACLU, they said it would be a mistake.
Just this month, the state has voted and passed a law that ALL drivers' license exams will be printed in English and only English and no other language. They have been called racist for doing this, but the fact is that ALL of the road signs are in English only. If you want to drive in Oklahoma , you must read and write English. Really simple.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
Is PP the only group that does this stuff? Maybe new groups should take over and do it right.
originally posted by: mOjOm
Yeah, I'm sure it's just PP that ever breaks the law. No other organizations either public or private would ever do that.
Are you serious???
originally posted by: Xtrozero
When I said "this stuff" I was referring to their services..hehe If PP went away would that be the end to all women choice freedoms, social services etc...lol
In response, the state submitted a list of 2,010 other providers these patients could patronize. Except this was not actually a list of family-planning practitioners; it was a list of all Medicaid-enrolled providers — including audiologists, ophthalmologists, radiologists, nursing homes and, yes, dentists. (As a cheeky Mother Jones writer observed: “They know ‘vagina dentata’ is a myth, right?”)
www.washingtonpost.com...
originally posted by: Sremmos80
a reply to: xuenchen
What about it? They paid for it...
What does aids/hiv prevention have to do with it?