Money needed for health care access

This special session needs to solve some significant problems facing you and me including schools and health care for under-served and hard to serve families. If we don’t we end up with overcrowded ER’s and unhealthy communities. We need budget makers using every resource and creative idea.

Yet one of our state’s best health care providers is not only ignored but even targeted for loss of funding. The reality for historically under-served and hard-to-serve people here is that Planned Parenthood clinics are badly needed. They already welcome those in rural areas, people of color, those with low incomes, LGBTQ folks, and those with no insurance or just Medicaid.

In fact, 72 percent of Planned Parenthood’s Clinics serve these areas and people. Often there’s no other provider to absorb these patients should they be forced to close. So some legislators are actually proposing cutting medical care and leaving children, women and men with no services. Is this why you elected them? Is this what you want partisan politics to do? If it’s not, tell your senator and representative now to budget money for Planned Parenthood and similar clinics.

This story was originally published June 22, 2017 at 5:40 PM with the headline "Money needed for health care access."