Planned Parenthood Begins Layoffs & Closures

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's amazing the kinds of great radio show ideas you
can think of as soon as the microphone turns off
and you finish your show for the day and you.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Think, oh, I could have talked about this. Ah.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
So several things either happened or ideas kind of percolated
yesterday after the show, and a lot of them had
to do with the topic of planned parenthood. So I've
got two things. One is that an actual breaking news
thing that happened very late yesterday, and one is another
kind of generalized topic, just just an understanding of how

(00:37):
much money we were pumping into planned parenthood. But first
is the breaking news. Planned Parenthood Marmanti is closing five clinics,
five of their thirty five locations, So Planned parent in
Marmanti is the regional Planned Parenthood affiliate. Planned Parenthood is
broken up into about fifty different and nonprofit corporations that

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run clinics in different regions of the country. So Planned
Parenthood of Michigan is an individual corporation that runs eleven
plant Parenthood clinics in the state of Michigan. Planned Parenthood
of Wisconsin is a separate corporation that runs twenty two
Planned parenthoods in Wisconsin. There are some states where one

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Planned Parenthood is running all of the planned parenthoods. One
Planned PARENTOED affiliate is running clinics in multiple states. There
are some states where there are multiple affiliates. So in California,
there are seven different planned parenthood affiliates that run clinics
in California. Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles, Planned Parenthood of
Northern California, Planned Parenthood this that Planned Parenthood Marmanti runs

(01:49):
planned parenthood clinics in San Jose, other parts of the
Bay Area, all of the San Joaquin Valley, and then
also Las Vegas and Reno, the two Planned Parenthood next
in Nevada, and it's the largest planned parenthood affiliate in
the country.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
They have I think it's.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Something like annual revenues and expenses around like one hundred
and fifty million dollars per year. Their assets are nine
figures worth of assets. It's this enormous, enormous entity. I've
been writing and talking a lot about the impact that

(02:33):
the OBBB.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
And it's defunding a Planned Parenthood for one year.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
What kind of an impact that's going to have on
abortion provision in America and on Planned Parenthood itself. And
while initially I was kind of skeptical, I was one
extremely disappointed that the OBBB got sort of weakened from
defunding Planned Parenthood for ten years to defunding it for
only one year.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I thought that was a huge missed opportunity. I still
kind of.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Think it is, frankly, and I'll explain why. And I
sort of thought, well, one year without federal funds playing
paranor'll get over it. And then when I really crunched
the numbers and really looked into it, what I realized was, Oh,
this is going to massively impact them.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
They're going to have They're.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Gonna enormously have to cut costs, cut down their operations.
Because what I did was I basically looked into Basically
I made a massive spreadsheet and I looked up the
nine to ninety forms, the federal nine ninety, which the
tax form that every nonprofit has to submit for its
tax filings every year, and it's all publicly available. For

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any nonprofit. You can look up, you know, how much
revenue did they have that year, how many expenses do
they have that year? What did they get in donations
that year? What did they get in program services that year.
So you're doing some kind of activity and getting reimbursed
or getting money back for it. Who's their top executives
blah blah blah. And so I did that and I

(04:09):
looked at that up for every single Planned Parenthood and
I got to see, well, their program services, most of
that is Federal Medicaid funding. And when you look at that,
you can see Planned Parenthood is enormously reliant on Medicaid
to operate without the federal Medicaid program, which, again, Federal

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Medicaid program is health insurance for lower income people. So
the way Planned Parenthood gets money from Medicaid is people
go to Planned Parenthood, they request some kind of service
birth control, STD test, screening, whatever, sex change hormones, and

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they Planned Parenthood gives the person that service, and then
Planned Parenthood receives from the federal Medicaid program a reimbursement. Now,
the federal Medicaid program is really operated on a statewide level.
It's a joint state in federal project. In California it's
called medical So the reimbursement Planned parent it gets is

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partially I think it's like a third California money and
two thirds federal money for abortion. The federal government doesn't
fund abortion directly. The federal Medicaid program will not reimburse
clinics for abortions. In California, the medical program uses a

(05:37):
pure stream of only California dollars to pay Planned Parenthood
for doing abortions. Not every state has it set up
that way. Now, when you look at that, you realize
Planned Parenthood has annual total revenues. All of the revenues
they get for their clinics between donations, reimbursement for services,

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and then other they have certain other forms of income.
Planned Parenthood's fifty affiliates, their clinic corporations throughout the country
get about fifty million dollars, excuse me, get about one
point seven billion dollars per year. The amount of money

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they get from the federal Medicaid program is something like
seven hundred million dollars, so well over a third, at
least a third of their revenue every year comes from Medicaid,
comes from the federal government, comes from your federal taxes.
So to have one year where you're where all these

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fifty clinics combined are going to lose I don't know,
five hundred million bucks maybe that's a huge blow. That's
not a sustainable even for one year. That's an enormous blow.
The Planned Parenthood's clinics in California alone are estimating that

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they're gonna lose three hundred million dollars this year or
lose out on three hundred million dollars worth of funding.
They can't sustain that, Okay, Planned Parenthood's California clinics. Basically,
it's just not sustainable for their California clinics to have

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like a nine figure loss in one year and just
replace it.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
They don't have that. I mean that they would have
to liquidate assets.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
And this is what we're seeing now is that process
is beginning.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Planned Parenthood Marmanti announced that they are.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Closing five clinic locations, including their clinic in Fresno. And
now there's a part of me that wants to wax
a little poetic about all this and get a little sentimental.
And it's about Saint Jocom's Church in Madera, California. If

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any of you are listening to this from Saint Joacoms,
go give your pastor Father John or no, if father
John was your old pastor, I can't remember the name
of the new pastor give your priests a big hug.
Because Saint Jocom's Church in Madera, the Catholic parish in Madera,
the massive Catholic parish up there has been has a

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team of volunteers who would go out to the Planned
Parenthood clinic and pray there almost every day, pray for
the women going in, pray that their babies would not
be aboarded. Planned parents clinic in Madera would they would
prescribe the abortion pill. In the old days, they would

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just send women to Presno to go get surgical abortions.
Now with the advent of the abortion pill, they were
able to get them set up with the abortion pill.
And basically the good folks from Saint Jocom's Church would
go out there and pray day after day, year after

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year after year. Often on Mother's Day we would help
them out with the Mother's Day with a Mother's Day
corsage fundraiser.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
We did that and help them out for years and
years and years.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
And so to see this as an answer to their
years and years and years of prayer is just really
inspiring and really gratifying and just wonderful. So if I
may be a little wax a little nostalgic about that.

(09:57):
I just want to acknowledge that and what those wonderful
people up there have done for so many years. Now,
this is just the beginning. This is one Planned Parenthood affiliate.
They've already had to cut twenty two employees from their

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senior executive staff that's based in San Jose. They've had
to close down five clinics, and they're saying that they're
going to reduce some of their non abortion services, which
by the way, they weren't doing much of to begin with.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
They announce on their Facebook page.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
We're now going to have to shut down our prenatal
care services program, which, if I may express some cynicism
about that, Planned Parenthood has been saying in Fresno and
this is part of Planned parent in Marmanti, that they're
going to be offering prenatal care services. They've been saying
that for years and it hasn't happened. It specifically hasn't

(10:58):
happened at their Fulton Street clinic. And why well, let
me explain why, all right. The vast bulk of Planned
Parenthood's revenue in Central California and Northern California is coming
from all of their California clinics. The vast bulk of
Planned Parenthood's revenue is coming from medical, right, and medical

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is notorious. I mean, one of the reasons why we
have so many problems with healthcare provision in the San
Joaquin Valley.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Medical is at the heart of it.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
The problem with medical is that it reimburses doctors very
poorly for the services they perform. Why did Maderi Community
Hospital go out of business? Well, the huge bulk of
their patients were medical patients. They're providing services to them,
and medical just doesn't reimburse enough to sustain your operations.

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And they had other issues that we're contributing to the
closure of the hospital. They didn't have enough nurses, so
they had to hire all these traveling nurses who were
super expensive, and there were a lot of other problems.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
But medical.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Is kind of the fundamental problem. Most of Planned Parenthood's
patients are medical patients. Now, California tries to do what
it can to keep Planned Parenthood afloat. They create all
these different programs to help sustain Planned Parenthood. But the
thing is with Planned Parenthood, some of their services are
clearly more profitable to them than others. Some of their

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services they can charge more for than others due to
the complexity, the expense of the drugs used.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Et cetera.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Abortion is obviously their main money maker. Abortion is the
thing that they can charge the most for. The global
bill for an abortion pill patient is something like five
hundred thirty two according to I think this was twenty
twenty three medical numbers that are it might have been
twenty twenty four medical numbers.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
That I looked up.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
The global bill that they can charge for an abortion
pill patient something like five hundred and thirty bucks. The
next most expensive kind of service that I could imagine
Planned Parenthood would provide, let's say, like an IUD insertion,
they can only charge medical. The standard medical rate for
it is one hundred and sixty eight bucks. So abortion's

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the thing they need to do. Whereas other services take
up time. A prenatal care service out a planned parenthood
actually seeing a pregnant woman taking care of her, doing
her prenatal checkups and check ins and ultrasounds and all that,

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it makes nothing. It's it they get squad douche for
doing it. Relatively speaking, the amount that they can get
reimbursement for is extremely low because it takes up time.
It takes up exam room space. Exam room space is
time is money. And you'll notice in Fresno, Planned Parenthood

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shades their services based on geography. Their clinical location that's
near Fresno State at I believe it's at Bullert First.
Their clinical location over there does provide prenatal care services
or did, whereas their clinical location on Fulton Street south

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of Olive.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
They don't.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Why well, because there's more non medical patients over at
First and Bullard than there are on Fulton Street. Everyone's
a medical patient at Fulton Street. So basically they would
lose more money offering it at that location, at the
Fulton Street location than they do at the First and
Bullard location. Now, they've been saying that they were going

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to offer at Fulton Street prenatal care services.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
They've been saying that for two or three years. They
still haven't done it.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
And this is one of the things I try to
argue about Planned Parentoid is that they as much as
they want to trumpet their non abortion services, it's their
abortion services that make them the most money. It's their
abortion services that are the essential thing. They don't compromise
on it their abortion services that are driving the bus

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and all their non abortion services. The rates for their
non abortion services go down every single year. Without federal reimbursement,
there's no way they can do even though any of
those other services. So when we return, I want to
just discuss how it's clear that the only thing left

(15:54):
that Planned Parenthood can do is keep doing abortions, and
that's going to be the only way they sustain themselves
financially this year. As horrific as that is. That is
next on the John Girardi Show, Planned Parenthood announced that
they are closing five clinics in their Planned Parenthood Marmanti Corporation.

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They're regional affiliate that runs all the Planned parenthoods in
the San Joaquin Valley and then a bunch of locations
in the North Valley and in kind of the Bay areas.
They're closing down clinics in Gilroy and Madera is one
of the most significant. They're closing down five clinics in total,
five of their thirty five locations, and I'm sure more

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closures of Planned Parenthood clinics will be coming.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
I'm sure that Planned Parenthood of.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Northern California, of Los Angeles of San Bernardino and Orange
County Planned Parenthood Southwest, which runs their clinics in San Diego.
I'm sure we're going to start hearing announcements from all
the rest of them about more closures.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Now.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
The only thing Planned Parenthood's probably going to do now
is abortion.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Why so.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
The bedrock of Planned Parenthood's business operations is Medicaid, and
in California, that's medical. The federal Medicaid program is basically
health insurance for lower income people. Someone with medical goes
to Planned Parenthood, they get whatever services God help them.
Planned Parenthood provides the service, they bill for the service

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they provided to medical, and Medical pays them for that service.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
That reimbursement, that payment from Medical, that reimbursement that they
get from Medical is the vast majority, actually of the
revenue that Planned Parenthood clinics in California get. Planned Parenthood's
California clinics get about eighty percent of their revenue from
so called program services, which is basically services they provide

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and then they get a reimbursement for it. A relatively
much smaller percentage of their funding, well under twenty percent
of their funding comes from donations that is weird. For
most Planned Parenthood affiliates around the country, donations are their main.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Stay, or at least it's a fifty to fifty split.
In California, they're extremely reliant on program services because California
has been so generous to them, They've been able to
rely on it and build up this massive infrastructure of
enormous number of clinics, enormous numbers of staff, enormous amounts

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of federal funding because of how generous California has been
to them through the medical Program and then other supplemental
forms of funding. Now without federal dollars, though, I don't
think Planned Parenthood can sustain taking any medical patients for

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anything except abortion. Why so, when you are a healthcare
provider and you get a reimbursement from medical every dollar
you get about in California, about sixty seven cents of
it is coming from federal taxes and thirty three cents

(19:16):
of it is coming from California taxes. Okay, that's how
the medical program works. It's jointly funded by the federal
government and the state government. So forever, if you're you're
a doctor, you provide a service to a medical patient,
your billing department bills, Medical pays you. If Medical pays

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you one hundred dollars, sixty seven of those dollars came
from the federal taxpayer, and thirty three came from the
California tax payer. All right, imagine that you're providing a
service to a patient. You bill for one hundred dollars
and instead all you get is thirty three dollars. All right,

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you're only making thirty three dollars when you were supposed
to make a hundred. Well, that changes the math for
you providing that service, doesn't it. You might decide, hey,
I'm losing money every single patient I take who has
this insurance. If I can't get the federal portion of
the reimbursement, I can't keep doing this. And that is

(20:18):
the conclusion Planned Parento has had to draw because of
the One Big Beautiful Bill and its federal defunding of
Planned Parenthood. They can still get a state reimbursement for
providing care or providing a service, not care. I would
say care implies something good. You can still get the
state portion of the reimbursement. But if you're only getting
thirty three cents on the dollar, you're losing money every

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patient like that you take. So as a result, Planned
Parenthood has had to stop taking Medicaid patients in a
lot of different states. Florida has stopped, it looks like
Colorado has stopped. I'm sure a lot of Planned Parent
clinics are going to have to make that decision. But

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the calculus is different from with abortion. The federal government
is governed by this thing called the Hide Amendment, which
is a writer that gets attached to federal budgetary bills
every year, and it basically says that federal dollars will
not pay for abortion directly. So the federal Medicaid program
will give Planned Parenthood money for contraception, for all kinds

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of other services, but they won't fund abortion directly. In California, though,
the medical program does pay for abortion with a stream
of purely California taxpayer dollars, so that isn't going to

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be changed by the federal defunding of Planned Parenthood. The
only thing Planned Parenthood does in California, or will be
doing in California for this year, is abortion. Now, when
we return and I want to talk about the idea
of Planned Parenthood, is it a private institution or is
it a public institution, and I want to compare it
with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which also lost its

(22:11):
federal funding. That's next on the John Girardi Show. The
Corporation for Public Broadcasting lost its federal funding, and we
would think of PBS, We thought of PBS, We thought
of NPR, which are the two entities that the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting sort of helped fund. And oversee, we

(22:34):
think of PBS and NPR as government entities, right, That's
how we've always thought of it. It's a public television,
it's public radio, it's taxpayer funded. That's always how we've
envisioned it. This is a public These are public entities.

(22:56):
I believe they were created pursuant to Acts of Congress,
and they have a certain level of federal oversight. You know,
they haul the CEO of PBS in and she has
to sit there and answer questions from members of the
members of Congress.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
We think of it as a public thing.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
What if I were to tell you that planned parenthood
is actually far more of a public thing than PBS
and NPR are.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Allow me to explain.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
The federal allocation that's given to the Corporation for Public
broadcasting or the most recent one that was approved for
this fiscal year, or or the last fiscal year.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
I guess that just ended in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
The twenty twenty five allocation for the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting was five hundred and thirty five million dollars. The
federal government was going to pay the corporation was going
to give the Corporation for Public broadcas testing five hundred
thirty five million dollars. That money goes to the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting, and then that is distributed to all

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of the NPR and PBS local stations throughout the country.
For an individual PBS or NPR station, the federal allocation
is not their only source of income. In fact, it's
not even their the majority of their income. The estimate

(24:32):
is that it's about if I'm reading the numbers right,
and it's a little bit confusing, but it's not above
thirteen percent of the total revenue of a PBS or
NPR station comes from the federal tax payer. Okay, not
more than thirteen percent. The rest of their revenue comes

(24:55):
from local support, donations, business support, sponsorship, et cetera. So
PBS and NPR, yeah, they are public entities. They are
publicly funded entities, but only so much. Yeah, they're created

(25:15):
by an Act of Congress. We think of it. I mean,
CBS and Fox and NBC don't get that kind of
support from the government or oversight from the government. We
think of it as a public thing, but it's it's
not like every single dollar.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Is coming from the federal government.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
And that's why I don't know that it's likely that
NPR PBS are going to you know, just keel over tomorrow.
In fact, there are news stories out that since the
Federal Recision Bill was passed to cut NPR and PBS
funding that their donations have shot up.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Which makes sense.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
And hey, guess what if people really love NPR and
PBS and the kind of broadcasting they provide, if they
want to donate to it, you know, good luck, more
power to them. Just don't make me the taxpayer, pay
for something that fundamentally run by people who fundamentally hate
my guts. Planned Parenthood is more of a public institution

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than NPR or PBS, is that is my thesis. Why Well,
First of all, as far as raw dollars per year,
the federal government was paying Planned Parenthood more than it
was paying. The entire Corporation for Public Broadcasting PBS and
NPR combined, Planned Parenthood was getting seven hundred million dollars

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per year in federal taxpayer money.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Not to mention.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
The additional I think it's something like two hundred million
dollars they were getting from various state medicaid programs. I mean,
the state funding they were getting is another huge amount.
But seven hundred million dollars from the federal government as
opposed to PBS and NPR combined getting five hundred thirty

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five million. I'm not done, as I was saying, federal
revenues constitute about thirteen or so percent of the revenue
of any individual PBS or NPR station. Federal revenue accounts

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for more than a third, more than thirty three percent
of the revenue of Planned Parenthood's clinics. So why do
we think of PBS and NPR as public, as subject

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to congressional oversight, as a government entity over which we
should have say, And yet we view Planned Parenthood as
private and people yell well, well.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Planned parento is a private institution.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Are you are you're getting angry at them because of
their political advocacy? Well, yeah, given that planned parenthood only
was able to exist at the level it was able
to exist because of my taxes. More of your taxpayer
dollar was going to plan parenthood than to combined and

(28:47):
PR and PBS. And it really it leads me to
this thing I've been talking about, this sense of title
entitlement that so many liberal institutions seem to have, that
they are owed tons of your money, and that if

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you take it away, it is an egregious affront against
the very foundations of democracy itself. Somehow that I mean
to the point where you've got this federal judge in
Massachusetts who's holding up the defunding of planned parenthood for
a number of different planned parentid entities, who's basically trying

(29:32):
to stake out some position that Congress doesn't have the
power to not spend money, which is like, well, if
Congress can't not spend money, not even just the spending power.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Of Congress, which is pretty well established.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Congress can't decide not to spend money. If Congress can't
decide not to spend money, then we probably just need
to scrap this entire constitution we've been using for the
last two hundred plus years. And you know, go with
something else, because that's a pretty fundamental thing, Congress to
decide not to spend money, to choose to not fund

(30:08):
something in a way that makes a one federal judge
in Massachusetts mad. And this entitlement that we've seen in
so many areas, whether it's nonprofits funded by USAID, some
of which were totally absurd, and it's actually been interesting

(30:34):
to see how this more critical approach has led to Okay,
the pep FAR program, which helps prevent the transmission of
aids in Africa. Okay, at first, like everything in USAID
was getting cut, including pep FAR, and pep far was
apparently like I think.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
That's the name of it. I hope I'm not referring
to something else. It was actually very helpful.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
In preventing the transmission of aids in African was saving
a lot of lives. And so the Senate so Congress,
when they actually did a closer assessment of all the
various USAID programs, they retained funding for PEPFAR while cutting
funding for basically everything else in USAID that was useless.

(31:17):
And it was this, but it was this indiscriminate spending
on a whole host of stupid things, and then if
you try to cut it, they would say, how dare
you you're cutting pep far Oh, people with AIDS in
Africa are going to die. Okay, we can keep the
funding for people dying of AIDS in Africa whatever, so
they don't die. That seems to be actually accomplishing something worthwhile,

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or or transmitting AIDS to babies after their board, whatever
it was. When Congress actually does its job of closely
and carefully assessing what it's going to spend money on,
as opposed to just farming it out to a bunch
of bureaucrats who are completely left wing and just sort
of decide on their own whatever the heck they want
to do. It leads to actually pretty reasonable outcomes. But

(32:08):
the entitlement from the USAID crowd, the entitlement from PBS
and NPR to expect that they can have, you know,
decades worth of hostile programming against conservatives, evince this attitude
that they've never actually met anyone from rural or red
state America, and then still turn around and demand five

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hundred and thirty five million dollars every year in federal
allocation or planned parented itself. Why is there this entitled
sense that planned parents should get federal funning.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
Well, it's not just direct federal money. It's not just
paying that. They participate in the Medicaid program and they
get they they provide services for people and get reimbursed
for the Medicaid program, just like other doctors do.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Okay, participating in the med Medicaid programs not a right,
it's a privilege. It's a privilege to allow you to
get money for taking care of people who don't have
a lot of money. It's a privilege. And to qualify
for being a Medicaid provider, you got to meet certain

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kinds of standards.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
If you're a doctor who's taking care of Medicaid patients,
who has to qualify with your state's Medicaid program in
order to care for patients, but you racially discriminate, you
do other horrible things on the side, or you say,
you know, I word, just you racially discriminate, or you

(33:45):
do this bad thing or that bad thing. We say, yeah,
well okay, but I'm doing these bad things over here.
The Medicaid funding is just going to my care for patients.
You know, it's not the federal government subsidizing my racism
or this bad thing over here. It's just funding this. Well, no,
we don't care. To qualify as a medical provider, you
have to jump through a lot of different kinds of

(34:06):
hoops and for the federal government to decide, Hey, one
of the hoops you have to jump through as a
provider is that you don't do abortions, because we don't
think the American people their taxes should be sustaining the
operations of this kind of provider. We would want, over
time to sustain the operations of different kinds of providers

(34:26):
who can maybe provide, you know, if you want to argue,
although the important services Planned Parenthood does outside of abortions,
first of all, they're not abortion services go down every
single year. Secondly, there has been a growth in federally
qualified health clinics that do those kinds of services, and
they far outnumber Planned Parenthood clinics, if you you know.

(34:52):
And frankly, even I think a lot of those services
aren't necessarily good even but the usefulness of Planned Parenthood
outside of their their existence as an abortion provider is
going down and down and down every year. The case
for Planned Parento's continue existence outside of their abortion provision
is deteriorating year over year. They're not entitled to that money.

(35:17):
Congress decides what are the qualifications, and one of the
qualifications for a year anyway, and I pray god it
would be more, is that you also don't do abortions.
When we return, we're going to discuss what would an
actual ten year defunding of Planned Parenthood do next on
the John Girardi Show. Planned Parenthood has closed five clinic

(35:43):
locations in California so far. This is the first wave.
I think there's going to be a lot more closures.
This is just their Planned Parenthood mar Monty region of clinics,
so basically it's the nonprofit that runs a lot of
their clinics in Northern California, Central California, and Nevada. They've
been they're closing five clinics, including the clinic in Madera.

(36:05):
And the one of the things they've been saying is
one of the complaints Planned parento It has made is
that the federal defunding of Planned Parenthood.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Is a backdoor abortion ban.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
To which I would say, actually, I hope it's more
like a front door abortion ban. I wanted to reduce abortions,
and I think it will. And it makes me think
what would happen if Congress could get back to what
the House of Representatives did, which was a ten year
defunding of Planned Parenthood. When the House passed the OBBB,

(36:46):
it included a ten year defunding of Planned Parenthood that
got weakened in the Senate because the OBBB had to
be compliant with what Lisa Murkowski wanted, so unfortunately it
went from a ten year defund a Planned Parenthood to
just a one year defunding. If it was a ten
year defunding, planned Parenthood would go out of business, or

(37:08):
at the very least, it would exist in an incredibly
smaller form. Because that's the thing with this entitlement sense.
Planned Parenthood got more money every year than PBS. Planned
Parenthood got a bigger percentage of its revenue from the
taxpayer than PBS did or NPR. They got more money

(37:28):
combining than PBS and.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
NPR, and.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
They were only able to operate at the scale that
they operate today, with about five hundred something clinics throughout
the country. They're only able to operate today because of
federal taxpayers.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
That's it. That's the only reason why without that they
can't survive. Your taxes are the only reason they're able
to kill one hundreds of thousands of babies every year.
They're not entitled to it. I really hope Congress puts
in place the ten year defunding. That'll do it. John
Gerlady Show. See you next time on Power Talk.