Health Politics and Policy Matt Term Paper

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The Obama administrate had just announced that they would be revoking federal funding for the Medicaid Women's Health Program amid a fight over several clinics that were affiliated to providers of abortion Ramshaw & Belluck, 2012()

Gov. Perry issues a letter to Thomas Suehs who is the head of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission directing him to work with the legislative leaders to identify potential sources of funds to keep the program afloat Ramshaw & Belluck, 2012()

The program itself costs around $40 million which is 90% covered by the federal government. Therefore this cut in budget would mean that the Texas state would need to find about $36 million to fund the program Ramshaw & Belluck, 2012()

Since the program provides care to about 130,000 low-income women all over the state, Gov. Perry felt that the program was extremely beneficial to the state and that is why he felt the program should continue despite the cut in federal funding.
Though Perry did not specify where exactly this kind of funding for the project would come from, he said that the state has a multibillion budget which could be easily flexed to make provisions for the program. He showed optimism that accessing this funding would not be an issue for the state administration Ramshaw & Belluck, 2012()

The program is instrumental in the provision of birth control, pap smears and breast cancer screenings to low-income women. The reason why the federal funding was being shut down was because the state had refused to create rule for Planned Parenthood which would limit the number of children women can bear Ramshaw & Belluck, 2012()

This is one of the quality determinants of health since this program helps the low-income women to access quality health care from the state program......

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