Just last week, on the day the law restricting late-term abortion and tightening medical requirements for clinics was signed, Planned Parenthood announced it was closing three clinics blaming all the hostile #WarOnWomen suspects:
“In recent years, Texas politicians have created an increasingly hostile environment for providers of reproductive health care in underserved communities. Texans with little or no access to health care services have been deeply affected by state budget cuts to programs provided by Planned Parenthood health centers and dozens of others that provided lifesaving cancer screenings, well-woman exams and birth control,” said Melaney A. Linton, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.”
Now, the closing couldn’t have had anything to do at all with Planned Parenthood’s $1.4 million Medicaid Fraud settlement, could it?
The Texas Attorney General’s Office today concluded the State’s Medicaid fraud investigation into Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Inc. Under today’s agreement, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast must pay $1.4 million for fraudulently overbilling the taxpayer-funded Medicaid program.
After a whistleblower lawsuit was filed alleging improper billing practices by Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, an investigation was opened by the Texas Attorney General’s Office and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s Office of Inspector General. The State’s investigation revealed that Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast improperly billed the Texas Medicaid program for products and services that were never actually rendered, not medically necessary, and were not covered by the Medicaid program – and were therefore not eligible for reimbursement. For example, state investigators determined that Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast falsified material information in patients’ medical records in order to support fraudulent reimbursement claims to the Medicaid program.
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– I thought all of the Texas PP clinics were going belly up with the anti-abortion legislation. You mean to say they’re still in business? Well the ones that havn’t been caught in medicare frauds that is.]
– As usual, the difference between the Narrative(tm), msm media bs hype, and reality for the PPC’s is lightyears apart. Killing the children for the children.
you’re confuzzled the article says very clearly that
Melaney’s statement is perfectly aligned with this explanation as well. Furthermore, only one of these clinics provided abortions it says. Two of the clinics were just providing non-abortion health care stuff like std tests and what have you.
This is still a huge win for the fetopian white trash christers in texas.
A person’s a person no matter how small.
Rick Perry’s a dumbfuck and rather quite tall
Electric Hamster, shut up. Although being one does strengthen your position as a dumbfuck expert.
that was rude Mr. Block what you said
and awkward to boot, with your expostulation coming just at the crux of my morning where I need must turn my attentions towards this unholy mess that its my apartment
with your pardon I shall attempt to rectify the squalid conditions in which I find myself presently living and speak no further of these matters in Texas
that *is* my apartment i mean
nice to see you’ve joined Wendy Davis’ Kermit Gosnell Party, griefer.
And I’d say blocking medicaid funds to an outfit that commits fraud against medicaid since, from what I can find on the case, the investigation opened prior to the 2011 vote, is prudent and proper.
The whistleblower suit that resulted in the settlement was filed in 2012.
(I was thinking along the same lines you were).
Planned Parenthood makes like they are the only free clinic option available in the US. That’s a lie. There are free clinics in every county in the country.
Medicare fraud will get you barred from provider status for life.
Why shouldn’t Medicaid fraud.
Don’t Democrats care about poor people being ripped off?
It sure doesn’t look like it, does it, Thomas?
Ernst
Ah, lawsuit filed in 2012 really does go towards an investigation at least one year prior, most likely in 2010 as the incidents of fraud cited are only through 2009.
I see, it’s rude when I say it, but not when you say it. Giving you some of your own medicine and you don’t like it. Amazing. NOT,
Double standards, much?
You gotta have standards, to have double standards.
When it’s all just projection, that’s something else entirely.
It’s not even projection. It’s straight up contrarianism.
Kind of like George Costanza on “Seinfeld” when he decided to do everything the opposite of the way he usually did.
Ah, yes. The unreasonably high standards Texas has for abortion clinics. Such as “doctor must have admitting privileges at a hospital in case something goes wrong.”
Doesn’t just about every reputable doctor already have hospital admitting privileges? In my experience, all of them do.
What does that say about the type of doctor who’s working in these clinics?
Texas is leading the way in defining good abortions as them ones what take place under 20 weeks and in clinics what have the same standards as ambulatorical ones
Me I applaud this
they’re still socially backward hicks though all I can do about that is dilute it by when my presence is there
which at present it is not
“they’re still socially backward hicks though all I can do about that is dilute it by when my presence is there”
That statement alone should get you barred from the state for life.
in texas i get hugs
real ones not the midwest kind
We’re a bit more stoical up here.
What I’m saying is why import your California sensibilities to Texas, whom you disapprove of. Just stay where you are, La-La Land was made for you.
when that sun is high in that texas sky I’ll be bucking at the county fair
either that or shopping or maybe just getting some brunch at hula hut
JJ Cale died yesterday. In memorial, I’m’a go do a li…wait. No I’m not. Couldn’t find a line if I had to.
The rodent quoted one of my favorite songs and I am displeased. Thou shalt not take in vain the lyrics sung by singers in cowboy hats.
And, rodent, take off yer damned hat for this one.
Okay, that is just freaking weird! serr8d, I just linked Jackson Browne’s “Cocaine” in the comments on another blog not less than 10 minutes ago.
Just like the old turing (sp?) word that we used to have here.
errybody on god’s green what e’er wrote a song is dead or dying it seems
fucking obama
errybody on god’s green what e’er wrote a song is dead or dying it seems
Not to put too fine a point to it, but everybody starts dying sometime in their teens or 20s. The trick is to ignore it for 40 or 50 years.
– Putting an even finer point on it, the trick is to ignore it until you’re actually, you know, dead.
– Mustard toes is all twitchy because Texans stopped a bit of child killing for the children. A few weeks of nice solid Cal baby murders and he’ll be fine.
nonono!
everybody everywhere should have safe early fetus-friendly Rick Perry abortions Mr. Hunter
this way lies fetopia
if you wanna get on board this train before it leaves the station
sorry you’re too late
and we go doot
A person’s a person, no matter how small.
That’s all.
….In other news….
– Looks like the start of a turn in direction for states rights versus the damn octopus FED.
– Cairo gets much worse it will actually overtake Chicago in terms of lawlessness and violance.
“Well over 200 people have been killed in violence since the army toppled Mursi on July 3, following huge protests against his year in power. The army denies accusations it staged a coup, saying it intervened to prevent national chaos.”
– The Mama grisly calls Bumblefuck out when he tries to blow off his administrations lawlessness.
– Jug ears hides in a “safe” Leftist media outlet to spin tall tales and excuses for all his failures and crimes of his administration.
– Personally I hope he keeps lying through his half black ass, building up such a pile of bad karma it all comes down on his head at once like a ton of bricks, and burries the Progressive bowel movement for the next 75 years..
is there diy faq for tossing pikachus into volcanoes?
Obama Says Keystone Pipeline May INCREASE Gas Prices
– Well yes, but he also says, through one of his ankle kissers Carney, that legalizing the 30 million ilegaks already here, to be followed by 40 to 50 million more flooding across the border once the bill is passed will increase jobs and the economy, so theres that.
– At some point it will be cheaper to move to Mexico.
OT: Via AoSHQ, Honest Tea tests the integrity of Americans by putting their wares in unmanned kiosks with a sign offering $1 per bottle on the honor system.
Not surprisingly, the District of Columbia scored at the bottom, with only 80% paying for the drinks.
Alabama and Hawaii tied for first with 100% paying.
Utah scored 88%; only three states and D.C. scored worse.
I was chagrined until I realized that they were offering bottled tea, which Mormons don’t drink anyway, so the only Utahns who took the bottles (paid and not) were non-LDS and apostates.
Some of the ex-LDS folks around here doesn’t just leave the church, they stop being decent, as well. This test may or may not be evidence of that, but it is interesting, nonetheless because of the way the test unintentionally selected for only a part of the Utah population.
The three states who scored lower than Utah? Kentucky, Texas, and West Virginia.
It also looks like the bottom of the scale is bluer than the top; someone will need to go over it with a magic marker to be sure.
At some point it will be cheaper to move to Mexico.
It’s cheaper NOW. It always has been.
Except that some Mexicans were telling me how much more expensive basic foodstuffs are in Mex. than here. But housing is surely cheaper, and those bus rides are pretty inexpensive.
In Colombia in 1985, you could get a city bus ride for 7 cents, and the driver would make change. The bus lines were subsidized, dirty, crowded, and dangerous. The non-subsidized buses charged 15 cents and were clean and pleasant to ride.
– Actually my snark was ill placed. Its always been cheaper to live in Mexico and work up here. A number of Americans and not a few Mexicans here illegally already have been doing that for years.
– What will happen, and there are already some minor signs of it, costs will sky as more Mexicans migrate, so at some point it will be less of an advantage. That way both sides can shoiw a massive growth in slums and welfare queens.
– I’m watching Al Jazerra live stream, and the anti-coup people are gathering larger crowds, with rable rousers stirring up the groups with round the clock preaching.
– The Army is probably going to have to wade in to a greater extent at some point because the Brotherhood doesn’t care how many people it gets killed in riots. In the ME, even more than here, power is everything.
food stamp gets away with obamacare while for reals Americans get ass-jacked by our faggot fascist pig-fucking law pansies for running an “illegal gambling enterprise?”
now does that make a goddamn speck of sense to you?
and what in the name of fuck is a Preet Bharara
is Preet Bharara a volcano?
yes food stamp wants to throw Edward Snowden into it but his mac daddy Eric Holder already promised we wouldn’t off him
it’s the conundrum of our times
me I find fascist neo-america all too punctilious
but I’m old school
– William Benning, ex NSA employee on C2C tonight, with John B. Wells.
ex nsa employees are the only ones with any dignity at all
and not even all of them ones
Dear Leader “I’m a constitutional lawyer and you’re not, so stuff it.”
Planned Parenthood is not entitled to tax money is the entire point of the Texas legislation. The existence of the right to abortion doesn’t obligate any sort of wealth transfer exercise that right. Otherwise, you all owe me some sugar so I can buy me a modern AR civilian model.
Late term abortion bans are a sensible compromise and are not unconstitutional.
You’re about as “old school” as next fall’s new kindergarteners…
“I’m a constitutional lawyer and you’re not, so stuff it.”
heh.
Indeed, such a terrific constitutional lawyer that the great University of Chicago presented him with a tenured faculty appointment at its first opportunity!
Oh, wait. No. It didn’t.
Wonder what the cause of that oversight happened to be? I’ll bet it was racism.
Jack Lew is on FNC telling bald-faced lies about the “phony scandals”. I’m going to need blood pressure meds before these clowns are out of office.
Speaking of ‘wealth transfer’, President and Tenured Community Organizing Professional Barack Obama gave a lecture to the NYT yesterday…
Nice threat you have there, Barky. Now get on the trail and
gin‘Community Organize’ you up some more nation-dividing hatreds.– Don’t waste your time in the arms of a man who’s no stranger to treason……
– Linda R and Emilou – Telling me lies.
Those remarks of Obama’s are really a piece of work and look into how his pea brain works. Congress is full of sore losers who hate on him for winning and besides, most of them aren’t lawyers, like him.
Grow the fuck up, Barry.
– Well umm….that was a different sort of lies…..Here’s the singy link…
Who is Emmylou Harris without Gram Parsons ?
There is zero evidence that Obama has expertise in Constitutional law, and much evidence that he has none whatsoever.
Sorry, autobiographies don’t count as scholarly publications, not even if you write two of them.
Fraud, corruption, and incompetence are widespread in every Government department and program. A childhood friend of mine, later a professional athlete, went to federal prison for three years for being the bagman between a black doctor and a black state senator who were defrauding Medicaid for million$. Medicaid provides lots of legal loopholes to get rich, such as focusing on one disease, HIV or example, then having an in-house pharmacy to capture all prescriptions; the patients are, as I’ve heard them called “pass-throughs”, whose only purpose is to provide a prescription stream wherein the profits lie. Of course, in GA, the Medicaid office is so thoroughly black and incompetent that nothing surprises anymore, like the year(s) they lost ten$ of million$ because they didn’t file the rebate paperwork to drug companies, or the years of approving ten$ of million$ for human growth hormone for no medical reason but for cosmetic muscle-building. Collapse of the system is unavoidable, I fear; spending other people’s money is just too much fun when The Card™ has no limit, those using it have no moral or ethical boundaries, and their personal causes are counter to the will and well-being of responsible Americans.
“heh.
Indeed, such a terrific constitutional lawyer that the great University of Chicago presented him with a tenured faculty appointment at its first opportunity!
Oh, wait. No. It didn’t.
Wonder what the cause of that oversight happened to be? I’ll bet it was racism.”
He once claimed in his “auto”biography that he didn’t make the college basketball team because the coach couldn’t appreciate how ‘black’ and ‘street’ his game* was.
* (cut to footage of modern day Obama hitting the rim and whiffing on 20 out of 22 long stationary hook shots just like a typical, lonely, fat, white kid, who reads comic books, and doesn’t like sports, in a 4th grade gym class)
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