The year is 2009. The color of each state indicates the number of pregnancies paid for by Medicaid. If one side of a political agenda is paid for by my tax dollars why isn't there an equal representation of a women's right to choice within these statistics?
Not only that, but, what is UP with all these incredibly high Medicaid deductibles. It started with $4.00 co-pay for a medication and now it obstructs a person's ability to pay the co-pay to receive treatment? What's up with that?
If we are going to pay for pregnancy, then we sure better be able to pay for the Morning After Pill!!!!!!!!!! Dah!
In honor of National Women’s Health Week, (click here) Oregon Rep. Carolyn Tomei, D-Milwaukie, talked up the benefits of a health initiative that encourages primary care providers to ask women whether they wish to get pregnant within the year or not.
The goal is to provide prenatal care to women who want a baby and contraception options to those who do not. Unintended pregnancies stress out family finances as well as taxpayers, who pick up the cost for half of all births in Oregon, Tomei said on the floor of the Oregon House.
"In Oregon in 2010, 49 percent of all pregnancies were unintended. Fifty-three percent of all deliveries were paid for by Medicaid," she said.
PolitiFact Oregon was intrigued by the statistic that nearly half of all pregnancies in Oregon in 2010 were unintended. How would anyone track that? What does it mean? Plus, we wanted to know if Medicaid -- a portion of which is called the Oregon Health Plan in Oregon -- paid for 53 percent of all deliveries.
