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...network of more than twenty hospitals and clinics in Cambridge, Somerville, and other communities north of Boston that serves 700,00 primary care patients. The Alliance receives 85 percent of its funding from state and federal sources, including Medicaid and Medicare...
...provision originally included in the stimulus package would have eliminated the waiver requirement, allowing states to directly access Medicaid funds for family-planning services that do not involve abortion...
...policy of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is that abortion "may not be claimed as a family-planning service" under any circumstances. Since 1976, the Hyde Amendment has barred the use of federal funds to pay for abortions. Individual states can use their own funds to pay for "medically necessary" abortions for Medicaid recipients, and at least 17 states currently do so. (See the Year in Health, from...
...learned this week, the stimulus package included a wide variety of programs, not all of them geared toward job creation or immediate economic benefits. But supporters of the Medicaid provision argue that it would have resulted in lower health-care costs and therefore rightfully belonged in the stimulus package as a cost-cutting measure. Whether or not you agree with that argument, numerous studies have shown that investments in preventative care save money in the long run. The Guttmacher Institute, which advocates for abortion rights, estimates that every dollar of publicly funded family-planning services saves $4 in state...
Liberals, meanwhile, are looking to swiftly roll back the policies of what they viewed as an antiwomen Bush Administration. But now they may have to wait a few weeks for that to happen. As one progressive policy analyst noted, inserting the Medicaid provision into the stimulus package "was kind of like bringing up marriage on the third date. You know it's going to come up eventually, so why start a fight at the very beginning, before you've gotten anywhere...