The Texas Attack On Health Care For The Poor

By rmrd0000 on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 4:01pm |

Let's Pretend Denying Health Care Is About Abortion

For people who live in poverty in America, getting medical care is never easy. In Texas, health care for the poor is particularly challenging: Medicaid rules are among the most stringent in the country. A family of four with twoparents must earn less than $285 per month to qualify. And for those who do receive Medicaid, finding a provider can present even greater challenges. It’s about to get worse.

For the past several years, Texas politicians have worked to cut off Medicaid recipients’ access to the wide range of services offered by Planned Parenthood. Now, barring an extension of a state district court’s temporary block on their efforts, they may have gotten their way.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and like-minded state officials targeted Planned Parenthood because it offers abortion services. But abortion services account for just a fraction of the care we provide, which means the consequences of a new policy would be far more sweeping.

If it goes into effect, this policy would block patients’ access to blood pressure checks, cancer screenings, birth control, S.T.D. treatment and other medical care routinely provided at Planned Parenthood health centers in Texas, where I serve as a medical director for primary care. Nationally these other essential services, not abortion care, account for 96 percent of Planned Parenthood’s patient visits; in Texas, for example, some 24,000 Medicaid patients received non-abortion care over the past four years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/opinion/medicaid-abortion-planned-parenthood-texas.html

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The Texas M.O.

City by city and town by town...

keep 'em poor... keep unhealthy... keep em' separated ... keep 'em ignorant.

Texas Tribune

The Texas Tribune is the only member-supported, digital-first, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

by Edgar Walters Jan. 15, 2020

Three Texas towns vote in favor of "sanctuary cities for the unborn," hoping to ban abortion

Big Spring, Colorado City and Rusk are the three latest towns to vote in favor of such ordinances, which are of contested legality and enforceability.

// snippets //

Big Spring’s vote was tentative; a majority of City Council members will need to vote once more in favor of the ordinance for it to pass. Colorado City’s vote, which also banned the sale of emergency contraception such as Plan B, was final, making it the eighth local government with such an ordinance in effect, according to the anti-abortion group pushing them. The East Texas town of Rusk approved a similar ordinance last week.

The ordinances are of contested legality and enforceability. The American Civil Liberties Union has said it is investigating a possible lawsuit seeking to strike them down. Three towns — Mineral Wells, Omaha and Jacksboro — have voted down similar ordinances or walked them back under advice from city attorneys.

But that hasn’t discouraged Mark Lee Dickson, the traveling anti-abortion activist who hopes to galvanize a statewide movement and perhaps provoke a lawsuit that could change abortion law nationwide.

“We have every intention of targeting every part of the state,” said Dickson, who said he is traveling to Levelland this week in hopes of persuading the town west of Lubbock to adopt a similar ordinance. “Every city, no matter what size, is valuable.”

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Mark Lee Dickson

Mark Lee Dickson is a director with Right to Life of East Texas, a pastor of SovereignLOVE Church in Longview, Texas, and the founder of the Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn initiative.

https://www.facebook.com/sovereignlovechurchpinetree/

SovereignLOVE Church is a Southern Baptists of Texas Convention affiliated church.

~OGD~

by oldenGoldenDecoy on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 4:44pm

The goal is not abortion, the goal is control of decisions made by others.

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 4:37pm

Yes. . .

ergo:

The Texas M.O. keep 'em poor... keep unhealthy... keep em' separated ... keep 'em ignorant.

~OGD~

by oldenGoldenDecoy on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 4:46pm

Hispanic income growth

www.dallasfed.org/~/media/documents/research/swe/2017/swe1704f.pdf

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 4:58pm

From your link

While Hispanic households have made economic advances, income inequality remains a concern. A greater share of Hispanics live below the pov- erty line (22 percent) than the overall share of the state population in poverty (16 percent). Furthermore, 27 percent of Hispanics in Texas lack health insur- ance; the overall state uninsured rate is 17 percent.

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 6:08pm

Breaking news: Hispanics doing worse than non-Hispanic whites - more on our evening news hour, stay tuned.

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 6:17pm

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