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Scott Walker Cuts Cancer Screenings For Uninsured Women, Offers No Alternatives
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| Contributor | TX DEM |
| Last Edited | TX DEM Dec 31, 2011 01:21pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Dec 31, 2011 01:20pm |
| Description | Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) recently decided not to renew a state contract with Planned Parenthood to provide cancer and multiple sclerosis screenings to low-income women. The decision leaves four counties without such services, and the governor has no plan to notify patients or offer them alternatives.
The Wisconsin Well Woman Program contracts with Planned Parenthood and other health organizations to provide cervical cancer, breast cancer and multiple sclerosis screenings to uninsured women between the ages of 45 and 64. For the first time in 16 years, Walker announced that the program would no longer be working with Planned Parenthood because the family planning provider is too "controversial."
With less than two weeks until Planned Parenthood's contract expires, Walker has yet to put forward a plan to notify women about the discontinuation of these crucial health services or to offer them a back-up plan.
"Our counties are scrambling, because there's not a huge line of health providers looking to serve uninsured women and manage these cases," State Rep. Gordon Hintz (D-Oshkosh), who represents one of those counties, told HuffPost. "Can you imagine what it would be like if you have an abnormal pap smear, and you call the old number and the person's not there anymore? The people I represent, we're risking their public health and well being to fulfill some sort of ideological commitment to attack Planned Parenthood." |
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