Obamacare Sex Change

[DrLeftover]

For the first time since 1981, when it dubbed sex-change operations experimental, Medicare has opened the door to covering transexual operations, adding to the growing list of operations that would be allowed under Obamacare.



Acting on a new request, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it is starting a new analysis that could lift the spending ban for sex-change operations with a goal of making a decision two days after Christmas and on the eve of Obamacare kicking in January 1.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/in-shift-medicare-would-pay-for-sex-change-operations/article/2525782





so, this is the 'change' part of hope and....

 

[Jazzy]

Please forgive me but I thought Obama was getting smart for once and becoming a woman!

 

[Fatal Dawn]

I see nothing wrong with sex reassignment nor does it really involve anyone but the person having the operation. To not give transgender people this choice would be an invitation to the government and/or social majority dictating what is medically necessary.

 

[DrLeftover]

.... and so we get to pay for that, but essential life preserving treatments will be denied.



nice

 

[Fatal Dawn]

.... and so we get to pay for that, but essential life preserving treatments will be denied.



nice

If anything those treatments are denied because the healthcare system is dominated by insurance companies who only care about lining their pockets. What it is saying is that insurers have no right to discriminate against transgender people. If insurers can cover everything from vaginoplasty to hormone replacement therapy in post-menopausal women, why are transsexuals dismissed? So a procedure is only medically necessary because you dictate it to be so? There was no reason for this discrimination in the first place. The medical field is maturing and starting to pay attention to the needs of populations that have been ignored.

 

[DrLeftover]

I don't dictate anything, and if I did discriminate, nobody would notice.



According to the early reviews of the new rules, a medical board of political appointees will decide who gets what under the general rationing, including cancer screenings. But I'd bet you they dare not deny a sex change application.

Decisions will have to be made about what services are not worth the cost. Yet so far, our political leaders have failed to acknowledge this to voters, offering instead an illusion that we can resolve the matter without any pain.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/b...lth-care-more-fairly.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0