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lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

RE: Do federal funds pay for abortion?

I know what to do_sometimes · Frozen Sucks!

Ohfour wrote:
Funny that the state with the lowest taxes can provide free basic healthcare to its people in every county.

That is actually very amazing.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Mellow Momma wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
Mellow Momma wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
Mellow Momma wrote:
We didn't have county clinics in the town I grew up in either. We had free clinics in the next town over but you could wait all day and not be seen. No one healthy went there. The county health dept did shots and such but they would have certain days when they did them and they held their shot clinics at the city hall. No gyno services were available.

-- Edited by Mellow Momma on Sunday 29th of January 2017 12:25:17 AM
Yeah, long waits usually happen for free handouts.
I was thinking more of all the terribly ill people with no place to go being forced to wait all day in order to get their basic needs met. But ok...
I grew up in a steel town. Many thousands of folks lost their jobs and insurance through no fault of their own. They eventually found other work but in that "in between time" they didn't have insurance. They got sick. They needed care. I don't think it's awful of them for going to a free clinic in that time. If you want folks to get their lives together and get a job...pretty difficult to do that when you have strep throat or bronchitis or such. Or what about their children? Too bad for them?! It isn't just people lined up for free stuff. It's folks lined up to try and get some basic care so they can go about their lives.

-- Edited by Mellow Momma on Sunday 29th of January 2017 11:48:20 AM
I don't know why. That's not what we were discussing.
Sorry - I thought the convo had morphed into a discussion of county health clinics. I was trying to explain that, much like IKWTDS, there ARE no county health clinics where I grew up. The only health clinics were private ones run by charities that served the entire community. These clinics served the poor and you had to show proof of income to be seen. The waiting rooms were populated with sick folks trying to get better. This is NOT where one would go for preventative care. The services of PP is vital in these cities because that's where women can be seen for preventative care at a low cost. County health clinics do vaccinations and that's about it. They don't even have an office, they "pop up" in different locations. Sometimes at a school, sometimes at a church, sometimes at city hall. The services you describe don't exist in all locations in the country.

Well, then, I really think maybe people should be focusing on that issue rather than trying to focus so much on planned parenthood. Because health care is about a lot more than birth control, STD testing and abortion.