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Diana DeGette: “Health department sites offering contraceptive care would…”

Featuring: Diana DeGette, Democratic | U.S. House, Colorado, District 1

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Diana DeGette Advocates for Planned Parenthood Funding Amid Medicaid Debate

Published | Video Starts at 02:44

But in fact, yesterday, May 13, 2025, the Guttmacher Institute issued a survey which shows that federally qualified health centers offering contraceptive care would have to increase their capacity to provide these services by 56% or an additional 1 million contraceptive clients. Health department sites offering contraceptive care would have to increase their capacity to provide the services by 28%, or 344,000 contraceptive clients. and so on. And so what the Guttmacher Institute found in its survey is that asking federal qualified health centers to become the main source of publicly funded family planning care is not a viable policy proposal. (02:44–02:58)

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Asserts that health department sites would need to increase capacity by 28% to replace Planned Parenthood's contraceptive services.

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