Fortune | FORTUNE 07月29日 00:59
A federal judge just dealt a blow to RFK Jr.’s strategy to defund Planned Parenthood
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美国联邦法官周一裁定,计划生育诊所在全国范围内必须继续获得医疗补助(Medicaid)的报销。此前,美国最大堕胎服务提供商计划生育组织正与特朗普政府就一项旨在削减该组织资金的税法修正案进行斗争。新命令取代了此前由波士顿联邦地区法院法官下达的一项初步禁令,该禁令阻止了政府削减那些不提供堕胎服务或在特定年份医疗补助报销额不足80万美元的计划生育诊所的医疗补助支付。法官指出,限制患者获得医疗服务的途径可能导致意外怀孕和相关并发症的增加,以及性传播感染(STIs)的未诊断和未治疗情况的增多。该组织估计,如果被切断医疗补助资金,将有近200家诊所面临关闭,导致超过100万患者失去医疗服务。

⚖️ 法院要求计划生育诊所继续获得医疗补助报销,以对抗特朗普政府试图削减其资金的努力。这一裁决旨在确保患者能够持续获得包括避孕、怀孕测试和性病检测在内的医疗服务。

🚫 法院的裁决并非禁止联邦政府监管堕胎,也不是指示其资助选择性堕胎或任何本不符合医疗补助覆盖范围的医疗服务。而是阻止政府在计划生育组织成功赢得法律挑战的实质性可能性时,将其排除在医疗补助报销之外。

📉 计划生育组织表示,如果被切断医疗补助资金,将有近200家诊所面临关闭,可能影响超过100万患者的医疗服务。这突显了医疗补助在支持该组织服务低收入和残疾人群体方面的重要性。

🏥 法官强调,限制患者获得医疗服务的途径可能会对患者健康造成不利影响,特别是可能导致意外怀孕和性传播感染的增加,因为获得有效避孕措施和性病检测治疗的途径受到限制。

A federal judge on Monday ruled Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be reimbursed for Medicaid funding as the nation’s largest abortion provider fights President Donald Trump’s administration over efforts to defund the organization in his signature tax legislation.

The new order replaces a previous edict handed down by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston last week. Talwani initially granted a preliminary injunction specifically blocking the government from cutting Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood members that didn’t provide abortion care or didn’t meet a threshold of at least $800,000 in Medicaid reimbursements in a given year.

“Patients are likely to suffer adverse health consequences where care is disrupted or unavailable,” Talwani wrote in her Monday order. “In particular, restricting Members’ ability to provide healthcare services threatens an increase in unintended pregnancies and attendant complications because of reduced access to effective contraceptives, and an increase in undiagnosed and untreated STIs.”

A provision in Trump’s tax bill instructed the federal government to end Medicaid payments for one year to abortion providers that received more than $800,000 from Medicaid in 2023, even to those like Planned Parenthood that also offer medical services like contraception, pregnancy tests and STD testing.

Although Planned Parenthood is not specifically named in the statute, which went into effect July 4, the organization’s leaders say it was meant to affect their nearly 600 centers in 48 states. However, a major medical provider in Maine and likely others have also been hit.

In her Monday order, Talwani said that the court was “not enjoining the federal government from regulating abortion and is not directing the federal government to fund elective abortions or any healthcare service not otherwise eligible for Medicaid coverage.” Instead, Talwani said that her decision would block the federal government from excluding groups like Planned Parenthood from Medicaid reimbursements when they have demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success in their legal challenge.

In its lawsuit, Planned Parenthood had argued that they would be at risk of closing nearly 200 clinics in 24 states if they are cut off from Medicaid funds. They estimated this would result in more than 1 million patients losing care.

“We’re suing the Trump administration over this targeted attack on Planned Parenthood health centers and the patients who rely on them for care,” said Planned Parenthood’s president and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson in a statement on Monday. “This case is about making sure that patients who use Medicaid as their insurance to get birth control, cancer screenings, and STI testing and treatment can continue to do so at their local Planned Parenthood health center, and we will make that clear in court.”

The lawsuit was filed earlier this month against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. by Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its member organizations in Massachusetts and Utah.

The federal department of health did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Previously, the department said it strongly disagreed with the judge’s initial order that allowed some Planned Parenthood members to receive Medicaid funding.

“States should not be forced to fund organizations that have chosen political advocacy over patient care,” said the department’s communication director, Andrew Nixon. Doing so, he said, “undermines state flexibility” and “concerns about accountability.”

Medicaid is a government health care program that serves millions of low-income and disabled Americans. Nearly half of Planned Parenthood’s patients rely on Medicaid.

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