https://www.plannedparenthood.org/le...al-health-care
"Planned Parenthood health centers around the country offer you the health care you need. Our caring and knowledgeable staff provide a wide range of services. Many health centers provide general health care."
Most gynecologists do not see men. PP does.
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/men
Despite allegations to the contrary, PP provides the same outpatient gynecology care that any GYN office would, with an emphasis on contraception and prevention of STDs. They serve a predominantly pre-menopausal age group. Look up any specific PP office and you can find out exactly what services you can get at that office.
Do they refer patients to other providers? Sure they do, and so does every gynecologist. Do they employ gynecologists and NPs? Sure they do.
The thesis of the OP that PP is somehow misleading people about mammography is bogus. They do breast exams, help patients get scheduled for mammograms if they need them, and subsidize the cost for some women. Private gynecologists do the same thing - except they do not have anything to do with how their patients pay for them.
Most gynecologists in private practice do only GYN. They do not see men and they do not provide general health care, although that varies with the training and interests of the individual physician. Planned Parenthood's services also vary from location to location. Gee whiz, there are PP locations that do no abortions at all.
Cut funding to PP and there will be people left with no place to get services.
Women's Health System Unready For Planned Parenthood Cuts
"As many as one-quarter of Planned Parenthood's patients -- hundreds of thousands of people -- would lose access to medical care if Congress cut the funding, the Congressional Budget Office estimated."
"In Louisiana, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast is under threat of being cut off by Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), whose health department attempted to argue there were thousands of other physicians to treat women --
but included dentists and eye doctors on its list of alternatives to Planned Parenthood."
"And although there are 9,200 community health centers nationwide -- vastly more than the 700 Planned Parenthood clinics -- they're legally required to be in places where there's a shortage of other providers, and are not necessarily near a current Planned Parenthood clinic. While these facilities do provide women's health services, they don't employ enough OB/GYNs to take on hundreds of thousands of additional patients, said DeFrancesco."
"Free clinics also would struggle to take in former Planned Parenthood patients, said Nicole Lamoureux, the CEO of the Alexandria, Virginia-based National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics, which represents more than 1,200 facilities.
'If the government does decide to withdraw funding for Planned Parenthood, we will do what we always have done, which is step up and attempt to serve those people who need help in the best way that we can,' Lamoureux said. 'But there needs to be an understanding that there is only so much capacity at our clinics.'"
Private doctors are not going to be taking large numbers of uninsured people who cannot pay for services either.
The community health clinics, free clinics, and private doctors will not be able to absorb the patients cast adrift if funding is cut to PP.
Not previously mentioned is the fact that there are some who consider just about every contraceptive method available to be abortifacient. Not only do they want PP out of business because it provides abortions, they want it out of business because it provides IUDs and the morning after pill.
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