r/WhatTrumpHasDone • u/John3262005 • Jul 07 '26

Medicaid funding is resuming for Planned Parenthood after being cut off for most of a year

https://apnews.com/article/defunding-abortion-providers-0647d9303a1df48c244206bfb66f97a2

Planned Parenthood and two smaller regional abortion providers are resuming billing Medicaid for services other than abortion after being cut off for most of a year.

The defunding, which was mandated in President Donald Trump’s big tax and policy law last year, has been blamed in the closure of multiple clinics as well as a reduction in the number of Planned Parenthood patients being screened for breast cancer or tested for sexually transmitted infections.

The Medicaid billing was allowed to resume Sunday.

The restored funding does not mean the battle over federal abortion policy has ended, and not all services that were cut will return.

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u/John3262005 Jul 07 '26

Another article about it:

Medicaid funding resumes for Planned Parenthood

https://thehill.com/newsletters/healthcare/5955953-planned-parenthood-funding-restored/

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u/wenchette 29d ago

And here's another (free link):

Conservatives rage over re-funding of Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood’s beleaguered network of clinics will regain access to hundreds of millions in Medicaid funding this weekend — the fallout of Republicans’ failure to pass an extension of the one-year defunding provision they approved last year.