The irony here is sweet and wonderful.
According to local reports, no less than six Planned Parenthoods across four Western states are planning to close their doors thanks to financial woes brought on by former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
6 regional Planned Parenthood clinics closing, citing effects of Affordable Care Act
Planned Parenthood says it will close clinics in Longmont, Parker and four others in the region, citing a tough financial landscape in the reproductive health care field due to effects of the Affordable Care Act.
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The story goes something like this: back in the good old pre-Obamacare days, most patients who wanted to get their health care at Planned Parenthood would pay for services out-of-pocket. Post-Obamacare, many of those same patients, often low-income women, were now covered by the newly-expanded Medicare program. This means that not only could women now get their birth control, pap smears and breast exams (of which Planned Parenthood performs painfully few, already) at slews of other clinics, but the nation’s largest abortion provider would now be forced to bill Medicaid for the services they used to charge straight to the patient.
And Medicaid, many Planned Parenthoods painfully discovered, reimburses clinics at a much lower rate, as crappy big-government programs tend to do.
Via MRCTV