Medicaid discounts pushed by Republicans could devastate reproductive care and contraception access

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Medicaid is the most used health insurance program in the country. It is a key source of healthcare cover for people with low income or disabilities, including millions of women and adults from all over the country to rely on it for Sexual and reproductive healthcare. Actually Medicaid provides medical care more than 13 million women of reproductive age (ages between 19 and 49), according to the National Partnership for Women and Families and for these women – including about 2.6 million black women, 3.6 million Latin and 643,000 million American and native Asian women/Pacific Islander – the program is more than just access to medical care. It is a rescue line. Women in general represent the majority of Medicaid registrations.

At the end of February, the Congress house Republicans passed a Budget resolution (which guides different chamber commissions to come up with specific budgetary plans) that would impose on the Energy and Trade Committee of the House to reduce the expenses in accordance with at least at least $ 880 billion in the next decade. Experts have ADVISED that the only way to meet this discount objective would be to make drastic and destructive discounts for Medicaid and Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Programwhich helps to complete the Medicaid gaps for children until the age of 19, as well as some pregnant women. Diving for the financing of the programs would undoubtedly hurt millions of Medicaid registrations.

One of the most critical aspects of Medicaid is its role in providing access to comprehensive and accessible family contraception and planning services. Under Federal lawMedicaid state programs must provide coverage for Family planning services Without sharing costs (Copayments, currency or deductible). The states have discretion in what benefit from the family planning they offer through the program, but most offer coverage for a number of services, such as contraceptives with prescription, health education and promotion, testing and treatment for sexual transmission (ITS) and pre-Conception and projections and exams.

From the 80s, Medicaid was too The primary source of financing for publicly financed family planning care, especially in states that have EXTENDED Their Medicaid eligibility for family planning in accordance with the Law on accessible prices (ACA). Since 2015, Medicaid has covered 75% Of all the public funds spent for family planning services, according to the reproductive health research organization and the Guttmacher Institute political organization. Medicaid is One of major public programs This makes birth control accessible and accessible for millions of low -income women.

The program is also a vital source of prenatal care and postpartum, being the biggest Payer of maternity care throughout the country, on the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The most recent data available from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that Medicaid is paying almost half (about 41%) of all births in the United States, and the percentage of births covered by Medicaid is even higher for black women (about 64%) and Hispanic women (almost 59%).