Kudos of the Day
While Myra wrote a post last week about the horrid Hyde Amendment and how it prohibits women on Medicaid from getting funding for abortion care, the Kaiser Foundation coincidentally released an issue brief today titled, “Medicaid’s Role for Women.”
The public health care program isn’t typically identified as a women’s program, yet 69% of its adult beneficiaries are women. Medicaid also finances 41% of all births in the United States and 61% of publicly funded family planning services.
So in short, Medicaid is doing tons for women’s health care in this country. And for that, they get kudos from us.
Check out a PDF version of the brief here.