Funds At Risk: What Services Does Title X Support?
NPR: At-Risk Federal Funds Cover Far More Than The Pill
In places like Unity Health Care's Upper Cardozo clinic in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C., doctors, nurses and other health care providers are too busy treating patients to focus on the fights happening across town. They're just hoping that a final deal does not eliminate all funding for the Title X Family Planning Program (known in the business as "Title Ten"). The bill passed by the House in February would do exactly that. It marked the first time either chamber has voted to cancel funding for the program since it was signed into law by President Richard Nixon in 1970 as Title X of the Public Health Service Act (Rovner, 4/1).
Related, earlier KHN story: A Guide To GOP Proposals On Family Planning Funds (Miles, 3/9).
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