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Northwest Planned Parenthood CEO talks health care changes
Mar 15, 2017, 4:31 PM | Updated: 5:31 pm

We now have had a look at the Congressional Budget Office report on the Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act. One big chunk of the report focuses on defunding Planned Parenthood. The CBO estimates that excluding the organization from Medicaid reimbursement would lead to an increase of about $21 million in spending on Medicaid pregnancies in the first year alone.
Planned Parenthood Regional CEO Chris Charbonneau sits down for a one-on-one with 成人X站 Radio鈥檚 Kim Shepard to explain why the costs would be even higher over the long run, why the term 鈥渄efunding鈥 is a misnomer, and some of the unintended consequences a repeal could have on the Seattle area.