We'll all be painfully waiting for knee replacement for 25 years while these disoriented individuals stick us with the $25,000 - $50,000 tab for their totally useless and pointless genital remodeling projects.
Posted on 01/03/2015 11:06:05 AM PST by Rusty0604
HICAGO — Denee Mallon marveled at the view of Lake Michigan from her hospital bed in the Windy City, where she had just made history: the then 74-year-old transgender woman underwent a milestone sex reassignment surgery she'd sought for decades. "Here I am, finally, after all these years," she said. "It happened."
Her operation will be one of the first paid for by Medicare after she won a challenge in May to end the government insurance program's ban on covering such procedures for transgender individuals. Mallon's victory opened the door for other seniors to access this care and may influence whether more insurers - private and public - will cover them. LGBT advocates also hailed her case as another step forward to securing equal rights for transgender people.
The Medicare decision comes as the number of private insurance companies offering transition-related coverage has surged in recent years. Human Rights Campaign, which advocates for LGBT equality, said about 34 percent of the Fortune 500 companies today — up from 10 percent in 2009 — offer transgender-inclusive health care benefits, including surgical. Many employers have started to address coverage for transgender individuals, and most have experienced little to no premium increases as a result, HRC said in its annual Corporate Equality Index.
Five states' Medicaid programs — California, Massachusetts, Vermont, the District of Columbia and Oregon — cover transgender health services, including sex reassignment surgery, in their plans for lower-income and disabled people. Ten states have banned health insurance discrimination against transgender people (the five listed above plus Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington, and most recently, New York).
The hope, transgender advocates say, is that the Medicare decision will encourage more Medicaid programs and private insurers to offer coverage.
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Insanity
Sex change at 74, no problem. Knee or hip replacement at 74, fuhgeddaboudit!
We'll all be painfully waiting for knee replacement for 25 years while these disoriented individuals stick us with the $25,000 - $50,000 tab for their totally useless and pointless genital remodeling projects.
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Pronoun reassignment political correctness surgery.
What do you say to this old man who had his penis surgically altered/removed? Congratulations???
Our government has gone totally nuts.
There s/b something that can be done about the unfairness of it.
I would tell him that I could have done it for him years ago for free.
You cease to make eye contact with him. If possible, never run into him. If unavoidable, have a very bad cough and a lost voice.
I have been waiting for my skeletal reassignment surgery - internal to exoskeletal - for SEVEN FREAKIN YEARS - and this POS gets his surgery first. I have been a gastropod trapped inside the body of a primate far too long. I have already started calcium carbonate treatments. Not happy.
Can’t you file a suit or grievance? I’m sure you paid into medicare for years expecting equal treatment.
Love handle removal?
Question: How can one tell this kind of mental illness from senility/Alzheimers? Mutilation of the elderly insane can be subsidized by the government, self-maintaining medication can’t be? Is it mostly male to female, or female to male? And at that age who wants to ADD saggy parts? Do 70 year olds get saggy boob jobs or wrinkly age-appropriate penises?
Isn’t it amazing how we’ve cured all major diseases and disorders, cured congenital defects, eliminated blindness and paralysis so that we can now squander medical resources on idiocy such as this???!!!
It’s mental illness but not dementia. Alzheimer patients can’t maintain any kind of real goal — no persistent goal seeking.
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