Originally published at: Supreme Court Hears Red State Attempt To Block Poor People From Planned Parenthood
The Supreme Court heard South Carolina’s big swing to knock Planned Parenthood off of Medicaid Wednesday — not because the provider is unqualified, but because the state just doesn’t want it to be an option. A Medicaid beneficiary sued when South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster (R) directed the state Health and Human Services department in…
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Apparently, the Right to Life carries the responsibility of struggling with crushing debt. We’re not exceptional. In most other countries, sick people don’t go bankrupt.
Our Republicans only offer debtor’s prison or suicide, in short, more of what we have now.
Democrats delivered Obamacare.
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“the payment of taxpayer funds to abortion clinics, for any purpose, results in the subsidy of abortion and the denial of the right to life.”
Translation: We will force you to bear children for the Führer.
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Dem wimen fok gettin to uppity. Gotta shackle dem in da kitchen.
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MAGAts don’t give a hoot and a holler for poor people, they enjoy being cruel.
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MAGATs don’t give a hoot and a holler for poor people, they enjoy being cruel.
Many of them are poor themselves, so the cruelty must be the point.
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Good Christians know more about allowing people to die then to save them.
“Gods don’t kill people. People with Gods kill people.”
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I hate these people. Inflict the most suffering possible on the most vulnerable. WWJD?
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Not included in this article is an explanation of the question that the Court is deciding actually deciding.
It’s not, like it may appear, whether South Carolina can terminate Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid program. The Court is being asked to determine whether private citizens have the right to sue to enforce requirements that are part of spending laws. The most concerning thing about this question is that a case like this could be used to erode or eliminate private rights of action, leaving no one with clear standing to challenge what would otherwise clearly be unlawful restrictions.
Using the facts of this case as an example, South Carolina is being sued because someone wants to be treated by a doctor working for Planned Parenthood and the laws/regulations related to Medicaid say that people receiving healthcare coverage through Medicaid can choose a qualified provider of their choice. South Carolina hasn’t said that Planned Parenthood isn’t a qualified provider, which means they should be eligible to receive Medicaid reimbursements for providing care. What’s probably surprising is that South Carolina isn’t arguing that its ban on paying Planned Parenthood with Medicaid funds should be allowed, it’s arguing that the patient shouldn’t have the right to sue the state to enforce the requirements in the Medicaid laws. If the Court finds that the patient doesn’t have the right to sue the state it opens the door to the question, “who can sue a state to enforce the requirements in federal laws.?”
If the Court starts limiting private rights of action against states that trend could spread to many other areas of the law including, voting rights, marriage rights, and a host of other Constitutional issues. A bad decision from SCotUS in this case will ripple out to every corner of the law potentially allowing countless other situations where states can essentially ignore requirements in Federal laws.
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So now the South Carolina is picking insurers and providers for Medicaid recepients because…that’s better for… people? Seems like they’re going full socialist in their logic here.
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“the payment of taxpayer funds to abortion clinics, for any purpose, results in the subsidy of abortion and the denial of the right to life.”
Sounds like the good Xtians in South Carolina are protecting the unborn by denying anybody with conflicting views the right to freely exercise their religion. And since money is a fungible commodity the only effective way to protect “god’s gift” is to deny funding for any medical services.
Sounds more like full authoritarian where the government gets to dictate every aspect of what you thought was your personal life.
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Please name one other medical procedure that the GQP thinks they can stick their fat noses in to? It’s a matter of conscience between the pregnant woman and her physician, PERIOD. No one else should be involved, that is all.
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Universal healthcare is the only method that the state has to undermine private health care organizations.
Planned Parenthood shouldn’t need to exist, but because it needs to exist, we need to fight for it.
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Because YES, women…you are nothing! ESPECIALLY if you are poor and black! US WHITE MEN will decide what is and what isn’t an ABORTION CLINIC even though they perform less than 1% of them. They ALSO give health checks but you’re just not worth it.
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I’m still stuck on this. It’s nothing new of course but I’m seriously wondering for the first time if this country is so divided as to be irreparable.
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The MAGA GOP would love to bring us back to the 19th Centaury
GENTLEMAN VISITOR: Yes…yes, it is, and the more reason for my visit. At this time of the year it is more than usually desirable to make some slight provision for the poor and penniless who suffer greatly from the cold. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.
SCROOGE: Are there no debtor’s prisons?
GENTLEMAN VISITOR: Many, sir.
SCROOGE: And the workhouse, is it still in operation?
GENTLEMAN VISITOR: It is, still, I wish I could say it was not.
SCROOGE: The poor law is still in full strength then.
GENTLEMAN VISITOR: Yes, sir.
SCROOGE: I’m glad to hear it. From what you said, I was afraid someone had stopped its operation
GENTLEMAN VISITOR: Under the impression that they barely provide Christian cheer of mind or body to many people, a few of us are hoping to raise fund to buy the poor some meat and drink and means of warmth. We chose this time because it is the time, of all others, when want is strongly felt and abundance rejoices. May I put you down for something sir?
SCROOGE: Nothing.
GENTLEMAN VISITOR: You wish to be anonymous?
SCROOGE: I wish to be left alone. Since you ask me what I wish, sir, that is my answer. I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make lazy people merry. I help support the establishments I have mentioned…they cost enough…and those who are poorly off must go there.
GENTLEMAN VISITOR: Many can’t go there, and many would rather die.
SCROOGE: If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population…
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In the insanely twisted “logic” that can only be found in the ossified brains of the reich wing, forcing poor women to produce more babies is god’s work.
However, this bunch who “hate” welfare and crime are going to see the logical conclusion of their hateful act play out in MORE welfare babies and MORE crime committed by children who grow up unwanted and in poverty.
They NEVER can think through to the outcome of their hateful acts.
And they get so offended when we tell them that they are stupid!
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There. IS. no. logic. in. rightwing. thinking.
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When I lived in North Carolina, trips to SC were sort of like visiting one of those “historical reenactment” state parks. And that was relative to NC, which definitely still has towns that seem like “In the Heat of the Night” sets!
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