Ban lifted on Medicare coverage for sex change surgery The Obama administration on Friday ended a 33-year ban on Medicare coverage for gender reassignment surgery — a major victory for transgender rights and a decision that is likely to put pressure on more insurers to provide coverage for such services. The ruling by a Department of Health and Human Services board was in response to a lawsuit filed last year on behalf of Denee Mallon, 74, a transgender woman and army veteran from Albuquerque. The blanket Medicare ban was put in place in 1981 when such surgeries were considered experimental. But now most medical groups, including the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association, consider it a safe option for those suffering from gender dysphoria, a condition that is characterized by intense discomfort — or “incongruence,” according to the official definition — with one’s birth sex. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ban-lifted-on-medicare-coverage-for-sex-change-surgery/2014/05/30/28bcd122-e818-11e3-a86b-362fd5443d19_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost
Now they have just gone full retard. We shouldn't pay for ANY elective surgery for a 74 year old woman just because of they's age. Is there any decision that forces insurers to pay for skin removal surgery for people that lose hundreds of pounds? Some of the women who get skinny look horrific after weight loss.
Wow! this is great news for the old dudes with prostrate cancer. Oregon's version of the new healthcare act won't provide treatment if the treatment extends your life. But under this new rule, they can call it stage one gender reassignment, just pluck that pesky prostrate right out of there.
Sex change is an inaccurate term. It is good news that Medicare can no longer discrminate against transgender people. Even if a bunch of straight cis boys consider it a joke.
I'm confused. I thought gender was identified as the social construct, and sex described the biology. If that's the case, wouldn't "gender reassignment" be the inaccurate term?
Who cares what term it is? I am all for it as long as everyone gets whatever treatment they want. If some poor soul wants to cut his junk off......... fine, I probably need 30 thousand in dental work because of something I knew I did but had no idea of the consequences. I grind my teeth at night like I want to grind them off. I actually have to the point that the inner material is exposed.Now my teeth are ready for cavity after cavity. Yippee, more root canals.More pain. YES!!!!!!!!! Would my medical insurance pay for it? Nope, dental that pays about 1500 a year.
