source NPR
source NPR
Posted on 08/06/2015 9:02:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Nothing like one publicly funded organization “fact checking” another.
Bush is right that Planned Parenthood receives $500 million a year in government funding — or, to be more exact, $528 million last year, according to Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report.
That totals more than 40 percent of Planned Parenthood’s total $1.3 billion in revenue for the year, which suggests that the organization would be in some heavy financial trouble without that public funding.
What programs are funding that money?
Those public funds come from two programs: Medicaid, the health care program targeted at lower-income Americans, and Title X, a federal family planning program that likewise primarily serves lower-income Americans. The overwhelming majority of federal funding to Planned Parenthood comes from Medicaid — 75 percent, according to a Planned Parenthood spokesman.
Not all of the public funds Planned Parenthood receives are federal spending, however. While Title X is a federal program, Medicaid operates using federal and state funds. States receive a 90 percent federal reimbursement on Medicaid family planning spending, for example. So when Washington politicians talk about “defunding” Planned Parenthood, they generally mean cutting off federal money. States could continue to spend as they please.
How does Planned Parenthood actually use those government dollars?
Abortion is driving the defund-Planned-Parenthood discussion in the wake of undercover videos from the anti-abortion-rights Center for Medical Progress. The group says its videos show Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of fetal tissue and have sparked a political firestorm. Planned Parenthood, for its part, says it does not sell fetal tissue and claims these transactions were donations.
However, abortions are actually not a big part of what Planned Parenthood says it does — 3 percent of the services it provided last year were abortion-related, according to the organization’s annual report. (For a sense of the scope of that, abortions accounted for about 328,000 of the group’s nearly 10.6 million services provided last year.)
It gets tricky here for a second. The author does mention that this 3% figure is arrived at by some creative accounting. It then moves on as if it never mentioned anything. In the “a picture is worth a thousand words” department, the only graphic provided is–get this–Planned Parenthood’s chart, which is used to prop up the the 3% lie. It’s a subtle thing, but it’s still a thing.
In another classic MSM ploy, it then delves into all that can go wrong using an inconclusive examination of the bill by the Congressional Budget Office. The negatives are listed very specifically and take up a lot of space in the article. but the disclaimer is quick and at the end.
To be clear, the CBO didn’t come to a firm conclusion on whether more or less spending is more likely.
However, it’s important to remember that these bills could only cut federal funds. States could still spend money to help Medicaid consumers, for example, use Planned Parenthood services.
Had it concluded there, all may have been well. The wrap-up, however, got back to abortion-rights advocates’ talking points.
Of course, without federal reimbursement, it could make those services much more expensive for those states. Abortion-rights advocates also argue that redirecting funding to other clinics could limit lower-income Americans’ access to family planning services, as other clinics may not have the capacity to handle the new customers, for example.
This is deft, old-school bias: pretend you’re presenting both sides but make sure one side is really, really presented.
PAID FOR WITH US TAXPAYER'S MONEY
Coming home in my car last evening I heard NPR relentlessly selling Obama’s Iran nuclear deal.
“Only” 3 percent?
Well, then. That makes selling aborted baby part perfectly OK!
And the Leftist flying monkeys on social media are SCREAMING that PP gets no tax money, that it’s all a rightwingnut lie.
If we had a 3% increase in C02, NPR would be screaming to high heaven.
Amazing.
This figure is bogus. Over 50% of PP earned income is from abortion. The way they define "services" is how they get the bogus 3% figure.
It’s past time to get our taxpayer dollars out of NPR, too!
source NPR
Thing is, it’s not only everywhere, but it’s the exact same talking point in every location.
The marching orders have been distributed. With organization and unity like the Left has, it’s no wonder the Right has lost.
My post on their forum thread accusing NPR of bias was yanked by the moderators.
The creative accounting is for services, like if one had a convenience store and you sold it per accounting for services, you could say you sold 97 candy bars for a dollar and had 3 gas fill-ups of $50 dollars, where is more of the revenue coming from??
It is not about the number of services, rather it should be based on the number of patients that are seen. I saw a figure of 2.7 million in a year. So, using that number (327000/2700000=12.11%). Which also shows that each person has 3.9 (10600000/2700000)services provided to them on each visit.
The left is at work 24 hours a day,
7 days a week.
They have changed "entertainment" into leftwing propaganda.
They have changed "comedy" into leftwing propaganda.
They have changed "sports" into leftwing propaganda.
After the PP killers are defunded, the NPR Winston Smiths are on the short list
Trump/Cruz, the new Conservative party: B there or B square.
Planned Parenthood’s chart shows that abortions made up 3 percent of its total services. Another way to measure the group’s abortion services, however, is to divide the total number of abortions by the number of clients. For example, Planned Parenthood said that it “provided nearly 11.4 million medical services for 3 million people” in 2009. Its 2011 fact sheet says it performed 332,278 abortion procedures in 2009.
That would mean that roughly one out of every 10 clients received an abortion.
It’s easy to lie with statistics.
If a woman goes in for an abortion I assume she needs to go in a couple times. An initial appointment for an exam and schedule the abortion and maybe another follow up. While the abortion is one “service” they simply pad their stats with a hundred useless “other services.”
If I pulled this crap with my customers I would be out of business in a second.
“..While the abortion is one “service” they simply pad their stats with a hundred useless “other services.”’
Right. And former PP directors, who turned pro-life, say all the money PP receives, including our tax dollars, goes in one pot.
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