{"id":127018,"date":"2016-09-26T16:37:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T20:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=127018"},"modified":"2016-09-26T17:02:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T21:02:50","slug":"can-planned-parenthood-be-trusted-with-medicaid-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/can-planned-parenthood-be-trusted-with-medicaid-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Planned Parenthood be trusted with Medicaid funding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Planned Parenthood is on a mission &#8212; and their allies in the Democratic party are helping, drafting <a href=\"\/news\/democratic-partys-2016-draft-platform-goes-further-on-abortion\/\">the most pro-abortion party platform ever<\/a>, which\u00a0includes removing the Hyde Amendment. The Hyde Amendment is a rider that has been added onto the appropriations bill every year since 1976, and it bans Medicaid funding of abortion. It&#8217;s also something that <a href=\"\/news\/sorry-hillary-americans-dont-want-taxpayer-funded-abortion\/\">Americans strongly support<\/a>. Yet Planned Parenthood, even though it is <a href=\"\/news\/women-dont-need-planned-parenthood-health-clinics-far-outnumber-abortion-facilities\/\">not a health care organization<\/a>,\u00a0continues to demand its removal anyway. Planned Parenthood has dropped any pretense of wanting taxpayer dollars for &#8220;health care&#8221;\u00a0&#8212; they want to force taxpayers to fund abortion. Period.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, getting <a href=\"\/news\/breaking-government-report-confirms-taxpayers-forced-to-give-1-5-billion-to-planned-parenthood\/\">over $1 billion in taxpayer dollars in three years<\/a> just isn&#8217;t enough money for the nation&#8217;s number one abortion provider.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ArticleAd1\"><!-- \/1011927\/LAN_300_by_250_top_article --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1473179053567-0\" class=\"ArticleAd1a\"><script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1473179053567-0'); });\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pro-life Democrats have been <a href=\"\/news\/pro-life-democrats-are-fighting-their-partys-efforts-to-repeal-the-hyde-amendment\/\">fighting their party&#8217;s efforts to repeal the Hyde Amendment<\/a>, and\u00a0the Republican party has adopted <a href=\"\/news\/republican-party-adopts-the-most-pro-life-platform-in-history\/\">the most pro-life platform in history<\/a>, which includes <a href=\"\/news\/donald-trump-vows-to-permanently-ban-taxpayer-funding-of-abortion\/\">making the Hyde Amendment permanent<\/a>. And these things are\u00a0good&#8230; because Planned Parenthood cannot be trusted with Medicaid funding.<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood has been caught, over and over again, and in locations across the country, defrauding Medicaid. In Wisconsin, the state&#8217;s Department of Health and Human Services found that <a href=\"\/news\/half-of-planned-parenthoods-medicaid-payments-were-fraud-auditors-say\/\">as many as two-thirds of Planned Parenthood Wisconsin&#8217;s\u00a0Medicaid payments were fraudulent<\/a>. The state investigated eight family planning facilities, five of which were Planned Parenthood clinics, and Planned Parenthood was by far the worst offender, with the highest percentage of over-billing.<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood of the Heartland was also found to be fraudulently billing Medicaid, <a href=\"\/news\/planned-parenthood-of-the-heartland-medicaid-fraud-case-part-1\/\">to the tune of $28 million<\/a>. In this case, the fraud included <a href=\"\/news\/pph-medicaid-fraud-case-part-2-patient-specific-abuses\/\">patient-specific abuses<\/a>, <a href=\"\/news\/pph-medicaid-fraud-case-part-3-unbundling\/\">&#8220;unbundling&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0of services,\u00a0and <a href=\"\/news\/pph-medicaid-fraud-case-fraudulent-tallying-of-patients\/\">fraudulent tallying of patients<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Texas, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast was accused of fraud, and <a href=\"\/news\/texas-revocation-planned-parenthood-medciaid-funds-will-not-hurt-women\/\">settled the case for $4.3 million<\/a> after a whistleblower came forward revealing that Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast had billed both the Texas Medicaid program and the Women&#8217;s Health Program \u201cfor items and services that were either medically unnecessary or were never actually provided.\u201d The fraud was so rampant that the United States Department of Justice openly criticized the affiliate for \u201cabuse of programs that are extremely important to the well-being of many American women.\u201d They were accused of submitting more than $30 million in fraudulent bills over the course of six years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ArticleAd2\"><!-- \/1011927\/LAN_300_BY_250_mid_article --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1473179101244-0\" class=\"ArticleAd2a\"><script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1473179101244-0'); });\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t just state investigations that found problems with abuse of funds, either. A U.S. House report found <a href=\"\/news\/house-report-details-planned-parenthoods-abuse-of-taxpayer-funds\/\">multiple abuses of taxpayer funds<\/a>\u00a0by Planned Parenthood, including giving money to their political action fund for lobbying purposes, spending millions of dollars on travel, and hundreds of thousands of dollars on themed fundraisers as well as lavish parties for their employees. Pro-life legal group Alliance Defending Freedom also examined 45 public audits of Planned Parenthood affiliates, along with 57 audits of state family planning programs, and found waste, fraud, and abuse <a href=\"\/news\/new-report-discovers-planned-parenthood-taxpayer-fraud-millions\/\">amounting to over $129 million<\/a>. In addition, the report found Medicaid fraud totalling $14.4 billion in 2013 alone.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the rampant fraud and abuse Planned Parenthood regularly engages in, why on earth should we trust them with even <em>more<\/em> taxpayer funding?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planned Parenthood is on a mission &#8212; and their allies in the Democratic party are helping, drafting the most pro-abortion party platform ever, which\u00a0includes removing the Hyde Amendment. The Hyde Amendment is a rider that has been added onto the appropriations bill every year since 1976, and it bans Medicaid funding of abortion. 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