Many people have the wrong impression about how physicians and nurses in Planned Parenthood (PP) are compensated for their services. The government doesn't have a single line item in its budget for PP; instead, when patients see providers in PP, those doctors or nurses submit a bill to Medicaid just as if they were an obstetrician in private practice. As a result, Republican's wish to defund PP seem even more ridiculous, and certainly very harmful to many women and men as well.