GOP: “No, No. We think Nazis and white supremacists are bad, but evangelical supremacists are ay-okay. And if you think we’re giving up the opportunity to fuck “other” people over, think again.”
AP can’t even be bothered to mention the videos were found to have been deceptively edited.
…suspending any Medicaid payments for patients who receive services from Planned Parenthood
What?!? Am I misreading that? It sounds like a direct assault on Medicaid patients, use Planned Parenthood once and you are ineligible for all Medicaid payments. In other words, you lose all benefits.
I keep thinking, no it can’t be that bad, and it always turns out worse than I thought.
You’re not misreading - but it’s bad writing and misleading. I just read a longer, newer AP article that says it’s the payments from Medicaid to PP for services rendered.
Not to minimize this for the affected people, but the dissent on the panel notes that this decision goes against other court findings on this. I have no idea what the next step is - full panel? But it’s not the last word, it’s not even the current word on the issue outside of this jurisdiction.
Dude that circuit court is stacked with judges from Trump’s short list to the SCOTUS. Some of the esteemed members of this court are: Raymond Gruender (who rules against Planned Parenthood, saying that all women seeking an abortion should know that they are destroying a “life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being.” and ruled against segregation monitoring in Little Rock, because he believed that the metrics used were subjective (uh, so is your opinion, dude)), and Steven Colloton. This is a very conservative circuit court, and I am sure this will be appealed.
So kids, whenever you hear “conservatives” bitch about “fake news”, please know that they are projecting. And whenever you hear “conservatives” bitch about “judicial activism”, please know that they are projecting…
To whom? The Gorsuch Court? I think it’s a dead issue. PP is probably done in the long run like ACORN. ACA will eventually fall and after 2018 Trump will have a Senate that can no longer stop him.
We are nearing the culmination of the GOP long game and the Democratic failure to catch a clue for 40 years.
Wow you are pessimistic. I am less so. Although the SCOTUS is stacked in favor of the GOP currently, Americans saw to their amazement that the GOP was willing to sit an entire year, so that Obama could not appoint a completely competent judge who was supported by the GOP before Obama appointed him for nomination. Also, Roe v Wade is currently settled until it isn’t, as is the Hyde amendment which both states that Abortion is legal and that the Gov’t will not spend dollars directly on abortive procedures (mind you that almost half of abortive procedure after the 1st term are miscarriages, not necessarily elective procedures). Planned Parenthood has gone out of it’s way to comply with federal law and then had to go out of it’s way to comply with State law. All this to deliver service to mostly low income or young americans for services that exclude abortion. The GOP is cutting off it’s nose in-spite of its face. Here in Texas we are limiting outreach to unplanned pregnant teens because of political reasons, not because those political reasons lead to better results (lower teenage pregnancy rates). This is obvious and it is a fact. If this does go to the SCOTUS, the question will be should the state of Arkansas protect it’s medicare/medicaid providers from state rules which are in conflict with the federal rules. Last time I checked the medicare/medicaid law is not subject to state interference, and reading the judgement from the court makes it clear that the opinion leaves room for a successful appeal. This summary judgement by Colloton is biased: http://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/17/08/153271P.pdf