The Texas Health and Human Services Commission delivered a final legal notice to defund Planned Parenthood from the Medicaid program.
In a provision under the state and federal law pertaining to Medicaid providers, the Office of the Inspector General wrote that the group is “not qualified to provide medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal, and ethical manner.”
We talk about the decision and its implications with Alexa Ura with The Texas Tribune.
MORE:Texas Officially Kicking Planned Parenthood Out of Medicaid (Texas Tribune, Dec. 20, 2016)