Who Knew, the GOP wants to increase Medicaid spending to increase the population of the poor.

I guess they figure it will either fill the ranks of the military or prisons.  This is from a Yahoo article.  I assume they do some fact checking.  Anyway, the House GOP wants to slash Federal spending on Title X family planning which costs $286 mm in 2015 and serves the really poor who make less than $10,000 a year.

"there’s evidence that Title X saves taxpayers money: For every public dollar invested in family planning, the American taxpayer saves approximately $7 in Medicaid-related costs. Nearly half of all births in the U.S. are paid for by Medicaid, the health care program for low-income families and individuals; the average national cost for one Medicaid-covered birth is $12,770. This is a stark contrast to the $239 per-client cost of publicly funded contraceptive care through Title X family planning. It is estimated, then, that Title X saves taxpayers nearly $7 billion a year."


Half of all births in the U.S. are paid for by Medicaid.  When did that happen?

So if the GOP doesn't want abortions to increase (and they certainly don't want to pay for them), and the GOP doesn't have a solution to raise the income of the poor (35 years of trickle down economics hasn't helped these people) and the GOP doesn't want to pay for the health care of the poor (they just want to repeal ObamaCare and spend less on Medicaid which is being drained by the indigent elderly who needed custodial care due to dementia), I don't know why they would curtail family planning.  

But they do, so they must be more serious about ending government family planning than they are about curtailing the budget deficit, and if they are serious about that, then they are truly heartless SOB's and want to see an increase in the poor children who don't get sufficient food or health care.  So they will end up in the military or in crime.

GOP policies are incoherent and lack a soul.