Another Dirty Little Secret About ObamaCare & Planned Parenthood

Another reason to oppose ObamaCare. Given PP's track record of covering up rape & incest, envouraging teens to go behind their parents back to get birth control pills & abortions, do we really want to make it any easier for them to spread the "culture of death"? Esp on our dime!!!

Remember, when PP talks about "comprehensive reproductive health care" that it considers abortion to be health care. The fact that there will be no oversight will enable them to get away with more of the same as I mentioned in the 1st paragraph.

& while opening these clinics may be made to appear as expanding to non-revenue generating sectors, for PP it will be a funnel that will create another way to increase the amount of money pouring into its already overflowing coffers.

Health Care Reform Would Allow Planned Parenthood Clinics in Schools
August 15, 2:33 AM
Dallas Republican Examiner
Victor Medina

A measure in President Barack Obama's health care plan could allow for special interest groups like Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion services provider, to operate health care clinics, at taxpayer expense, inside America's public schools.

Under Title V ("Other Provisions") of Obama's "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009" (the official name for the bill, H.R. 3200), Subtitle B (School-Based Health Clinics, or SBHC) outlines a program in which the federal government would fund clinics in or near the nation's schools. The administration of these clinics will not rest with the school nurse or anyone who answers to the school administration or parents. Under Section 399Z, "the SBHC sponsoring facility assumes all responsibility for the SBHC administration, operations, and oversight."

According to the bill, a "sponsoring facility" is "a hospital, a public health department, a community health center, a nonprofit health care agency, (or) a local educational agency." Such broad wording outlining the qualifications for government funds and access to schoolchildren could open the door for groups like Planned Parenthood to operate the clinics in schools with no oversight and full federal government support. The organization currently operates over 850 clinics nationwide.

The clinics would be funded by federal grants awarded by the Obama administration, which has made it clear that they expect Planned Parenthood to play an active role in their proposed health care system. In the midst of the recent national debate this summer and during the Congressional recess over the health care plan, members of the Obama administration were meeting with Planned Parenthood staff and making strong overtures over their potential role in health care reform.

In July 2009, Tina Tchen, the director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, spoke at the opening session of the Planned Parenthood 2009 Organizing and Policy Summit. Among the participants in the summit were over 200 teen educators. School-based health clincs would be an ideal outlet for their expertise.

At the summit, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards stated the organization's commitment to be a part of health care reform. "Health care reform is moving full steam ahead," she said. "Policymakers in Washington need to know the importance of including women's health care as part of a reform package. We are grateful that Tina Tchen took time to update us on health care reform and take our message back to (her) colleagues." In a press release, Planned Parenthood stated the summit's particpants would work to ensure "comprehensive reproductive health care" is a part of health care reform.

In June 2009, the White House hosted a Women's Health Care roundtable to discuss ways to improve the health care system. Among the handful of invited guests were Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards and vice-president for advocacy and public policy Laurie Rubiner. Leading the roundtable was Obama's health care reform czar Nancy-Ann DeParle (official title: Director of the White House Office of Health Reform), Tina Tchen, and Melody Barnes, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.

Barnes formerly served as Executive Vice President for Policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank. Under her tenure, the Center issued a policy paper entitled "More Than a Choice," which attempted to shift "beyond the stagnant abortion debate" and make abortion not a life and death morality issue, but a health care issue.

In a statement issued at the roundtable, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards stated their intent to be a part of health care reform. “As a trusted preventive health care provider to more than three million women a year...we see firsthand the need for quality, affordable health care for women and families and the need to invest in prevention care. Any meaningful health care reform needs to lower costs, as well as expand coverage and access. That means expanding coverage for comprehensive reproductive health care and ensuring that essential community providers like Planned Parenthood are included in health plan networks.”

Not only does Richards expect the Obama Administration to include Planned Parenthood services in health plan networks, the SBHC provision of H.R. 3200 makes the prospect of Planned Parenthood operating in-school clinics a near certainty. Few established hospital systems would be capable of immediately expanding into non-revenue generating sectors like schools. Planned Parenthood, however, who relies on federal funding and has already begun training hundreds of teen educators, would not only be ready to take on such a task as administration of a school clinic, in many cases, they may be the only option. Expanding into schools would also fit into Richards goal of "expanding coverage and access."

In July 2009, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) admitted in a subcommittee meeting that Planned Parenthood would be designated an "essential community provider," which would put them in line to qualify for federal funding for abortions, and potentially, administration of school based health clinics.

Even as a senator, Barack Obama was a strong supporter of Planned Parenthood's agenda. In a 2007 speech at a Planned Parenthood event, Obama said abortion would be "at the center, the heart of" his plans for health care reform.