Obamacare cutting family planning

[Quantum Windbag]

Got to love unintended consequences.

An unexpected quirk in the Affordable Care Act has left birth control clinics struggling to balance their budgets in the most unlikely of places: California. Clinics that have long enjoyed state support to run as nonprofits have to rethink how to stay in business.
Take the Planned Parenthood clinic in Concord, about 30 miles east of San Francisco. Priscilla Castillo is surrounded by a rainbow of paperwork -- various insurance forms patients fill out when they come to the clinic. They won’t fill them out much longer, though, because the clinic is moving to a new electronic system. It’s the clinic’s latest attempt to cut costs in the age of Obamacare. At the start of the year, the vast majority of their patients became eligible for Medicaid, the state-federal program for low-income people. That’s great for low-income patients who will now have access to medical care, but it’s not clear that it’s a great thing for family planning clinics in California.
For the last 15 years, such clinics have been paid through a robust state program called the Family Planning Access Care and Treatment Program, or Family PACT. It is the first and largest program of its kind, covering the cost of family planning services for nearly 2 million uninsured women and men, with no cap on spending. Nearly 60 per cent of Planned Parenthood’s income is from the program. But this year, its revenue streams are going to start shifting dramatically: 84 per cent of the clinic’s patients became eligible for Medicaid, or Medi-Cal as it is known in California, on Jan. 1, because of the expansion of care for the poor under the federal health care reform.

Family Planning Clinics In Calif. Squeezed By Health Law - Kaiser Health News

Don't worry Obamazombies, [MENTION=23929]Greenbeard[/MENTION] will be along soon to hand you your talking points.

 

[Mr. H.]

Tip of the iceberg. It's all going to come down like a house of cards.