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Wisconsin is pushing to expand a controversial program that uses federal Medicaid funds to provide free birth-control pills, vasectomies and other forms of contraception to low-income people, an effort made possible by the federal health-care overhaul.
Wisconsin Makes Push on Free Birth Control
Seeded on Fri Aug 20, 2010 3:55 PM EDT
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Wisconsin says about 53,000 people receive extra family-planning help under Medicaid. With federal Medicaid funds reimbursing 90% of the cost of most family-planning services, the state spent $18.4 million on the program in 2008.
I think this is terrific way to decrease unplanned, unwanted pregnancies......
- 11 votes
#1 - Fri Aug 20, 2010 3:57 PM EDTI'll go ahead and say it: Think how many less abortions there will be.
- 8 votes
A truly wonderful idea.
I don't mean to sound critical, but, if you don't work with the Medicaid Public, you probably wouldn't understand.
- 5 votes
But critics point out that it allows girls and boys as young as 15 to participate without having to notify their parents.
Solution, Fly over Wisconsin throwing handfuls of condoms freely.Tax payer Problem Solved.....?
- 6 votes
#2 - Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:17 PM EDTCan't wait to see the Scott Walker and Donnie Johnson political ads about this! Good seed KJ.
- 3 votes
#4 - Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:29 PM EDTMuch success to Wisconsin and I hope the free birth control is given to anyone and everyone who wants it no matter their age. I'm glad they're including pap smears and STD stesting. I don't agree with infertility treatments on the tax payers dime. If you can't reproduce, adopt. A child is a child no mater who gave birth to him/her and all children need the same things: love, a roof over their heads, food in their bellies, clothing on their backs, shoes on their feet, school supplies, taught how to respect boundaries, taught morals, taught how to respect their fellow man, etc.
- 4 votes
#5 - Fri Aug 20, 2010 8:28 PM EDTBut critics point out that it allows girls and boys as young as 15 to participate without having to notify their parents.
Many of them may be already having sex without notifying their parents. If this will help them to avoid unwanted pregnancies, it will be a good thing.
- 3 votes
#6 - Sat Aug 21, 2010 1:43 PM EDTThat same year, the state's health department estimates, the program prevented an estimated 11,064 unplanned pregnancies, at a savings it estimates at $139.1 million—savings, it says, in expenditures to cover the birth of those children and other health care for them.
and just how did they calculate how many pregnancies they prevented?????????????
just want to add that we could use a few less eliteists.......... think they'd buy into this?
nah.......... they can get their teeth fixed, and they can receive any 'treatment' needed... for any catastrophic illnesses......... it's the little people who can't. they get to just waste away.
Wisconsin has (this number was months ago) 33,000 people on the health insurance waiting list. Can't see a doctor. It's called Badger care........ but....... if you pay 132.00 dollars a month, they'll get you a kinda limited policy for basic healthcare.
we used to be a state with a heart......... since thompson's reign........ not so much.
- 2 votes
#7 - Sun Aug 22, 2010 6:34 AM EDTI'll agree, Thompson didn't have much of a heart, but did have a huge capacity for the cocktail.....
- 1 vote
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