A planned parenting clinic in Salt Lake City is shown on Wednesday, July 31, 2024 (photo by McKenzie Romero/Utah News Dispatch)
Washington – clinics for planned parenthood across the country announced on Friday that their routine appointments of the healthcare system will no longer be used as a Federal Court decision.
The change that could exist for months, if not longer, will probably affect the hundreds of thousands of Medicaid participants, the clinics for planned parenting for health care that are not associated with abortion.
“This decision is devastating for the patients here and in this country. And it exacerbates an already broken and overloaded health system,” said Shireen Ghorbani, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Association of Utah. “We know that cancer remain undetected, StiS will remain untreated.”
Dominique Lee, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts said that there is no plan for other health service providers to absorb the Medicaid participants.
“Nobody is waiting in the wings to take care of our patients,” said Lee. “Planned Parenthood is the security net.”
Planned Parenthood has identified at least 200 clinics of around 600 that could close if they cannot treat Medicaid patients and receive reimbursements The state health program For people with lower income and some people with disabilities.
“We work feverishly with our colleagues and teams to alleviate this number,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “We have to remember 50% of the planned parenthood that Medicaid use for your health insurance. And so this is a very useful influence on health centers, which are also based on the reimbursement of the reimbursement of the services provided.”
GOP law aims at the planned parenthood
For decades, the Federal Law has banned the financing of abortion services with narrow exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the pregnant patient.
At the beginning of this year, the Republicans included a provision in their “large, beautiful” law in the congress, which prevents the financing of Medicaid Finance from certain health organizations that offer abortions and received more than 800,000 US dollars in reimbursement of the program in a recent financial year.
The language, which originally occurred for 10 years, but was reduced to one year in the final version of the invoice, seemed specifically aimed at. It prevents the organization from receiving all medical funds for health services that have no abortion, such as annual corporations, cancer screening and Sti -tests.
Planned parenthood quickly submitted a lawsuit In July in the Federal District Court in Massachusetts, shortly after President Donald Trump signed legislation.
A district court judge made a momentary injunction and then a preliminary injunction This month, the blocking of the Ministry of Health and Human Services blocks the implementation of this aspect of the law and the enabling of Medicaid patients to continue to go into the planned parenthood for routine health services.
On Thursday a three-judge committee of the Us 1st Circuit Court of Appeal The decision of the butcherthe way for the Trump debt to set the reimbursement of the planned parenthood for Medicaid patients, while the case continues.
Peyton Humphreville, senior employee at Planned Parenthood Federation of America and one of the lawyers who deal with the lawsuit, said on Friday with reporters with reporters, the organization rates all its options, but only expects additional decisions later this year.
“The Court of Appeal of the 1st circulation has submitted a briefing time plan for the injunction, which will be fully informed by mid-November,” said Humphreville. “From there, the court will plan oral arguments and at some point after the oral argumentation of the interim inclusion of the interim decision.”
