Posted on 05/31/2014 1:41:50 AM PDT by kingattax
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Transgender people receiving Medicare may no longer be automatically denied coverage for sex reassignment surgeries, a U.S. Department of Health and Services review board ruled Friday in a groundbreaking decision that recognizes the procedures as a medically necessary and effective treatment for individuals who do not identify with their biological sex.
Ruling in favor of a 74-year-old Army veteran whose request to have Medicare pay for her genital reconstruction was denied two years ago, the agency's Departmental Appeals Board ruled that a three-decade-old HHS rule excluding such surgeries from the procedures covered by the national health program for the elderly and disabled was unjustified.
"Sometimes I am asked aren't I too old to have surgery. My answer is how old is too old?" the veteran, Denee Mallon, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, said in an email interview before the board issued its decision. "When people ask if I am too old, it feels like they are implying that it's a 'waste of money' to operate at my age.
But I could have an active life ahead of me for another 20 years. And I want to spend those years in congruence and not distress."
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Are all elective surgeries covered?
The sh— just never stops, does it?
until the day that real Americans decide to stand up and literally take back the country and our government it won’t stop.
I think you are right, but I am just about convinced the country is passed the point where it can be solved peacefully. I do not like that idea, but I do not see any way around it now.
Good. Another government program that will go broke sooner.
“sometimes finding the right words to comment on the absolute insanity we see happening is impossible. “
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Yes, the USA is not going down fast enough for the Commies.
They want a USSA, and they want it NOW.
What they really need is someone to say no. Sick ba******.
And given restricted budgets, someone in true medical need will be sacrificed for some asshole that wants a change-out for his otherwise retired genitals.
It’s chilling that state bureaucracies are sponsoring this crap.
The individuals seeking the sex change obviously have issues. But they are ironically not the failure — it’s the govt fools facilitating and forcing the outcome.
2. "Real" Americans didn't produce enough offspring to hold on to the country.
It’s nice to know that all of our deficits have been eliminated, all of our enemies have been neutralized, and all of our liabilities are funded, so that we can now afford this.
“Are all elective surgeries covered?”
It won’t be long before Medicare won’t fund knee replacement, kidney transplant, or heart bypass for a 74 year old but will fund a sex change.
We'll let you know how the next 47 work out...
LOL - send a postcard once you’re “settled”!
Can't take back a country that has chosen to abandon its moral and cultural groundings. The only real hope is to divide the territory it once occupied.
Deviancy is always covered because they want to encourage it.
Veterans dieing due to lack of care, but we have to fork over our tax money for a pervert... I’m just wondering when the first shot it going to be fired in the upcoming civil war. My personal opinion is that a lot of normal folks are getting tired of this kind of BS, and its going to get very ugly one of these days.
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