FACT CHECK: DOES PLANNED PARENTHOOD GET OVER $500 MILLION A YEAR IN GOVERNMENT FUNDING?
4:25 PM 05/19/2018Emily Larsen | Fact Check Reporter ^^^ not sure if story picked up in May; Notable facts
“Cutting $55 million of Planned Parenthood’s $543 million in annual government funding = approx. 10%,” writer Josh M. Shepherd said.
Verdict: True
Planned Parenthood local affiliates received an average of $543 million in government grants and reimbursements each year since 2010. The bulk of that comes from Medicaid reimbursements, and about $50 million to $60 million comes from federal Title X family planning grants.
Fact Check:
The tweets followed reports that President Donald Trump’s administration will propose a regulation that blocks clinics that perform abortions, like Planned Parenthood clinics, from receiving federal Title X family planning grants.
Planned Parenthood has a network of about 56 local affiliates and around 600 clinics in the U.S. Its annual reports show that the affiliates have received an average of $543 million in government grants and reimbursements each year since 2010. Planned Parenthood’s national office its political action committee do not receive government funding.
The organization’s most recent annual report shows that the affiliates received about $544 million in government funds from July 2016 to June 2017, accounting for 37 percent of revenue for all local and national Planned Parenthood arms.
The bulk of Planned Parenthood’s government funding comes from Medicaid, a government health insurance program for lower-income people that is funded by federal and state governments. Local affiliates got an average of $404 million per year from Medicaid from 2013 to 2015, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released in March.
The Hyde Amendment, first implemented in 1977, bans the use of federal funding for abortion except in the case of rape, incest or life endangerment. Medicaid reimburses Planned Parenthood centers for services like HIV testing and birth control. But states can use their own funds to expand Medicaid coverage for abortions – and 17 states do so.
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