“We anticipated a lot of what is happening.”For now, she said, Kentucky Medicaid patients will continue to be served for free through September. Slightly more than half (51%) of Kentucky’s Planned Parenthood patients fall below the poverty line and 36% have Medicaid, according to the organization. Kentucky’s centers see 4,861 patients every year in more than 8,000 visits, according to Planned Parenthood data. The idea that: ‘Take away people’s ability to come to Planned Parenthood and they’ll just go somewhere else’ is a farce. That is not a real thing.”Kentucky has had a well-documented health care workforce shortage for years.