Cindy Bolley   HHCTB?
Then onto the next State!
Apr 20th 2011 08:30   

Katrina O.   Indiana Water Filters
Political showboating at its worst!
Apr 20th 2011 08:36   

Cindy Bolley   HHCTB?
OK .... hmmmm perhaps I misread this whole thing

Planned parenthood is able to do what ever it wants
They have a lot of supporters I am sure.
They do not need money from the Government.
Cindy
Apr 20th 2011 08:57   

Katrina O.   Indiana Water Filters
ahh...but they are supported by government grands. These grants make up a huge part of their operating budget.
Apr 20th 2011 09:00   

Katrina O.   Indiana Water Filters
"The bill’s intent is to immediately shut off nearly $3 million in federal family planning and Medicaid funding..."
Apr 20th 2011 09:00   

Cindy Bolley   HHCTB?
Sorry Kat I see nothing wrong with that.
They have many supporters, If that is what they
want to do they can.. No Problem.
But... I don't think the government should be one of their
supporters

As I said... On to the next State!
Cindy
Apr 20th 2011 09:06   

Katrina O.   Indiana Water Filters
Taking away that much of an operating budget, will lead to closure for all, or most of their facilities, and reduce the number of women that receive help and support. I guess I don't understand how you can see nothing wrong with that?

What would happen to your budget if it took that big of a hit???
Apr 20th 2011 09:37   

Cindy Bolley   HHCTB?
I don't think that the Government should be involved with a lot of things.
Percentage wise my budget has taken hits like that
But I didn't ask anyone for a hand out
I just kept moving forward.

Cindy
Apr 20th 2011 11:09   

Cheryl Baumgartner   Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance
Sorry but I have to agree with Kat here. There's plenty of places to cut spending without taking money away from health care away from women who need it. The preventative healthcare these women receive not only affect their health, but the health of the children that they conceive.

There's no way these women can afford to pay co pays much less the exhorbitant insurance fees that they would have to pay in order to afford to go to the doctor. It's the lack of affordable health care that is driving the increase in Medical Identity Theft. People don't have insurance but they need treatment and care.

If th government wants to cut spending, then let them start with their salaries and perks. Then let them move onto their own wasteful spending habits.
Apr 20th 2011 23:01   

Katrina O.   Indiana Water Filters
Right!! Cheryl, thanks for bringing the identity theft issue, I hadn't even thought about that! So many bad things will happen if they take away what little affordable health care there is out there.
Apr 21st 2011 04:37   

Cindy Bolley   HHCTB?
I am certain this cutting off of government funding
comes from the sting operation that was revealed
across many states.
It is said that one bad apples don't spoil the whole bunch,
well a whole lot of bad apples that were revealed.

If Planned Parenthood had their government funding cut
then they would have to find other sources to continue to
operate. That is how a business operates.

We don't have a Planned Parenthood where I live.
BUT.... if we did and it shut down due to lack of government
funding others in the community would step in and pick up where they
left off.

Cindy
Apr 21st 2011 08:06   

Cheryl Baumgartner   Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance
"If Planned Parenthood had their government funding cut
then they would have to find other sources to continue to
operate. That is how a business operates."

That's a rather naive statement considering that Huge Wall street firms are still operating today and guess what? It was the Government that saddled the taxpayers with the billions of dollars that went to 'bailout" these corporate interests. If they can find billions of dollars to let bloated greedy corporate giants continue along on life support-they can find the money to fund health care services.

If you look at the mortgage crisis it was caused by predatory lending practices(Approving loans that the lenders knew were bad using government subsidies) and today these same lenders are using foreclosure mills to illegally foreclose on people's homes(Bad Apples) but I don't see the government yanking 'Corporate Welfare'. I do not buy into this double standard, the most broke crack whore walking the street should be helped before bloated corporate giants with CEO's pulling down multi-million dollar salaries while their companies ruined and only remaining afloat because of infusions of taxpayer money.
Apr 21st 2011 08:45   

Katrina O.   Indiana Water Filters
Thanks Cheryl! I have topped your comment! I totally agree!! the funding should be taken away from the crooks we (tax payers) are forced to support, not the poor souls who have nothing more they can take!
Apr 21st 2011 08:54   

Cheryl Baumgartner   Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance
When the government is more concerned with providing for and taking care big businesses over the people they supposedly serve-there's something wrong with the picture.
Apr 21st 2011 10:09   

Cindy Bolley   HHCTB?
I don't think the government should of bailed out the
others that you spoke of either.

Kat was talking about Planned Parenthood.
If the government will no longer support them
then they need to find other sources on income to
survive... if they don't, then someone else will be there
to pick up where they left off.

I don't think what I am saying is naive.
I think it is business.

Cindy
Apr 21st 2011 11:03   

Cheryl Baumgartner   Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance
Then that logic should have been applied to the Wall Street firms-it was not. The government chose to bail them out. No ones health was at stake, it was all about profit and greed. The government opts to stop supporting affordable health care and these people are going to get that care somehow.

Even if it means a woman with gonorrhea and no insurance must walk into a doctor's office and say her name is Cindy Bolley. That information is now added to your medical record.

How are you going to like your doctor asking you how YOUR case of the clap is coming along? Or worse yet a woman who is HIV+? That is already happening around the country pull what little affordable health care there is and it will get worse as more and more people have nowhere to turn for health care.

Like I said I don't buy into the double standard. They bailed out Undeserving corporations, they can support the millions who are now without because of the actions of the corporations that they bailed out.
Apr 21st 2011 11:40   

Cindy Bolley   HHCTB?
When Kat first posted about this topic, she was speaking about
Planned Parenthood loosing government funding.

Planned Parenthood was caught in a sting operation not just once but in many States.
I am sure this is why the push has been to discontinue to fund them 3 Million Dollars in Indiana.

I think the real catch was funding abortion. If Planned Parenthood wants to offer
to pay for abortions they should find other resources than tax payer money.
I certainly don't want 1 dime of my money going to pay to kill a baby.

I also said if they didn't find other funding they would be gone and someone
would be there to take over where they left off.
Hopefully providing the services that were offered before but..... EXCLUDING abortions.

Several years ago I was a volunteer with an outreach organization that was
headquartered in Detroit. I helped raise a lot of money for our local chapter
that provided services in our area that no one else offered.

One day Detroit said they were closing all of the outreach office.
We were crushed.
After all those years of having a local presence in our community we
were no longer going to be able to help people.

Detroit said sorry.... it was a business decision.

Bummer

Our office was closed but there was still a need.
A huge hole had been left by Detroit's business decision.

Many people got together and found a way to fill that need in our community.

A brand new organization was formed and that hole that had been left by
Detroit's business decision was filled. Enough people thought it was important
enough to pick up where Detroit left off when they made their business decision.

That is why I am sure if Planned Parenthood closed... someone would be there to
pick up where they left off offering the much needed services,
except the part about killing babies.
Apr 29th 2011 08:56