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Obama administration orders Medicare to pay for sex change surgery
Topic Started: June 4, 2014, 8:48 pm (424 Views)
M. Hawbaker
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Taxpayer dollars could soon pay for sex reassignment surgeries for elderly or disabled Americans on Medicare, thanks to a ruling Friday from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The agency’s Departmental Appeals Board lifted a three-decade-old ban on using Medicare funds for transsexual surgeries. The decision means the government considers the surgeries medically necessary and effective treatment for some individuals who do not identify with their biological sex.

In explaining its decision, the appeals board said the old ban on sex reassignment surgery was based on medical evidence compiled in 1981 and said new research showed the ban was “no longer reasonable.” Rather, it called the surgery “safe” and an “effective treatment option.” It noted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service did not try to challenge its decision, which is final unless appealed in federal court.

The Boston-based organization Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders hailed the board’s decision, calling transsexual surgery “medically necessary for many people with gender dysphoria.”

http://www.worldmag.com/2014/05/obama_administration_orders_medicare_to_pay_for_sex_change_surgery

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LifeInHim
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cricket55
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This is just not right in anyway.
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Rainbo
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NO, just NO!

I'm on Medicare, and I just had to pay over 3K for major dental work (not cosmetic like braces) out of pocket because Medicare does not cover dental, if a person has bad teeth and they are not taken care of it can lead to some major health problems. I put off having the dental work done for YEARS because I could not afford to have anything done. Now I find out that they are going to make Medicare pay for sex reassignment surgeries, to say I'm upset is an understatement. Someone please tell me exactly what health problems believing your a man or woman in the opposite sex's body is causing! What next I feel bad because my chest is small and the tax player should foot the bill for an enlargement surgery? [/RANT]

If they are going to make the general public pay for something else let it be dental (not cosmetic stuff), or let it be eye care.
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barb43
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Rainbo
June 5, 2014, 7:24 pm
If they are going to make the general public pay for something else let it be dental (not cosmetic stuff), or let it be eye care.
:thumb Absolutely right on, Stacy! . . . Medicare should only pay for treatments that are really, re-ally necessary.

Whose 90-yr old grandma would even admit it if she thought she'd be happier as a man?!? I can't imagine it. :tsk
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cricket55
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Just not right and they wonder why there is not enough money for those who really need it.
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Blessedx4
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This administration seems to support anything immoral.
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