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Texas wants Planned Parenthood to repay millions of dollars (apnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The case now before him in America’s biggest red state does not surround abortion, which has been banned in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. But Planned Parenthood argues the attempt to recoup at least $17 million in Medicaid payments for health services, including cancer screenings, is a new effort to weaken the organization after years of Republican-led laws that stripped funding and imposed restrictions on how its clinics operate.

At issue is money Planned Parenthood received for health services before Texas removed the organization from the state’s Medicaid program in 2021. Texas had begun trying to oust Planned Parenthood four years earlier and is seeking repayment for services billed during that time.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't believe the level of stupid in what I just read...

In 2017, Texas decided they didn't want planned parenthood covered by Medicaid. Let's just ignore the merits of it entirely and respect Texas's right to be as stupid as they wanna be.

So for four years, from 2017 to 2021, they went through whatever bureaucratic/legal process is required to remove an agency from Medicaid. Also ignoring the merit of it, that's their right.

Now they wanna say that all claims made during that process are fraudulent? Because while pp was still part of Medicaid, they didn't want them to be?

I don't want texas to have property taxes, I'm gonna start a movement to get rid of them (hypothetical, I don't live in Texas), let's say I succeed 30 years from now... do I get my money back?

No you jackasses. That's not how shit works. It's not rational, it's not logical, it doesn't pass a common sense test, you're fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s not rational, it’s not logical, it doesn’t pass a common sense test, you’re fucking stupid.

An apt description of just about any part of the GQP/conservative ideology.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But it does make sense. It is logical.

You are expecting them to make logical, sensible choices to get to the outcome you think is right, and they're not.

But their choices have led them to exactly where they want to be - able to blame democrats any time something goes wrong, while looting and pillaging the tax base to enrich their private donors.

This is all working as intended and designed. And until we stop acting like they're idiots that just happened to stumble onto something, they'll keep getting away with it. If they were truly stupid, or weren't planning this shit out, then we'd see benefit for normal people at least some of the time. Since we consistently see that only the rich benefit, it is safe to assume that they are only trying to benefit the rich. And are doing so successfully.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never attribute to stupidity that which could be ascribed to malice is the way that saying should go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Never excuse through stupidity someone with enough influence to know better.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The sad thing is, these people aren't "stupid", they know exactly what they are doing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Turning all Texan women into legal sex slaves?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What a shithole state.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

It's on the verge of losing its one star review status.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Makes perfect sense that the Republicans would want to steal from a charitable organization providing basic health services to poor women. They hate the poor and they hate women.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

These were my favorite parts

“Last year, Paxton said it was “unthinkable that Planned Parenthood would continue to take advantage of funding knowing they were not entitled to keep it.”

And

“Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is now temporarily suspended from office pending the outcome of his impeachment trial next month over accusations of bribery and abuse of office.”

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Govt designed to harm, not help it's people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Its* people.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Welp, better reel in all these unnecessary expenses to our citizen's health so we can build more traps for migrants to die.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Unless the law had a grandfather clause pretty sure they can tell them to go fuck themselves.