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The states led by the Republicans have sought to deprive providers of public funds by restricting access to Medicaid.
The United States Supreme Court has paved the way for South Carolina to eliminate the non-profit health care provider Planned Parenthood of Funding under Medicaid, a government insurance program.
Thursday’s decision was divided according to ideological lines, the three liberal judges in the tribunal of nine dissident members.
The decision canceled the decision of a lower court to intervene with the exception of the South Carolina of the Republican from preventing Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, a regional branch, to participate in the State Medicaid program.
The Republican leaders of South Carolina opposed Planned Parenthood because he provides abortions.
The Supreme Court’s decision strengthens the efforts of the states led by the Republicans to deprive the reproductive health care provider in public money.
The case was focused on the question of whether the beneficiaries of Medicaid can continue their application to enforce a requirement under American law according to which they can obtain medical assistance from any qualified and disposed supplier. Medicaid is administered jointly by federal governments and states, and it is designed to provide health coverage to low -income people.
Since the Supreme Court in 2022 canceled its historic ROE decision against Wade which legalized abortion nationally, a certain number of states led by Republicans have implemented almost total prohibitions on the procedure. Some, such as South Carolina, prohibit abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic operates clinics in the cities of South Carolina of Charleston and Columbia, where he serves hundreds of Medicaid patients each year, providing physical exams, projections for cancer and diabetes, pregnancy tests, contraception and other services.
The affiliate of Planned Parenthood and a patient from Medicaid, Julie Edwards, continued the State in 2018. A year earlier, in 2017, the republican governor Henry McMaster had ordered Officials to end the Planned Parenthood’s participation in the Medicaid State program, deeming any unreserved supplier to provide family planning services.
The complainants continued the South Carolina under a law of 1871 which helped people challenge illegal acts by state representatives. They said MEDICAIDE’s law protected what they called a “deeply personal right” to choose your doctor.
The South Carolina Ministry of Health and Social Services, represented by the Legal Defense Legal Defense Group of the Alliance and supported by the Administration of President Donald Trump, said that the disputed provision of Medicaid in this case does not respond to the “high bar to recognize private rights”.
A federal judge has already ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood, noting that the beneficiaries of Medicaid could continue under the law of 1871 and that the decision of the State to finance the organization violated Edwards’ right to freely choose a qualified medical supplier.
In 2024, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Richmond, Virginia, also slowed down with the complainants.
The Supreme Court heard arguments in the case on April 2.
The dispute reached the Supreme Court three times. In 2020, the Court rejected the Southern Carolina appeal at a previous stage of the case. In 2023, he ordered a lower court to reconsider the arguments of South Carolina in the light of a decision of the judges issued involving the rights of residents of nursing homes.
This decision explained that laws like Medicaid must give unambiguous individuals the right to continue.
