Posted on 12/11/2019 3:08:29 PM PST by Enlightened1
A federal judge has ruled the taxpayer-funded Medicaid program must cover transgender surgery in Wisconsin.
Judge William Conley, of U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, an Obama appointee, said a 1997 state regulation that excluded transgender treatments and surgeries from Medicaid coverage violated federal law, including the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare; the federal Medicaid Act; and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
A press release at National Health Law Program (NHeLP), which joined with other law firms in the class action lawsuit that challenged the exclusion, noted the state did not appeal the ruling “and has agreed to settle the named plaintiffs’ remaining claims.”
The original case involved four plaintiffs with gender dysphoria — all on the state’s Medicaid program — who sought transgender treatments and surgeries but were unable to get the procedures funded.
In his decision in Flack v. Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Conley observed a “consensus within the medical profession (is) that gender dysphoria is a serious medical condition, which if left untreated or inadequately treated can cause adverse symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, serious mental distress, self-harm, and suicidal ideation.”
However, more attorneys and physicians believe doctors eagerly providing cross-sex hormones and transgender surgeries to gender-dysphoric individuals may be committing medical malpractice.
For example, Idaho-based endocrinologist Dr. William Malone told Breitbart News it is “inevitable” that malpractice lawsuits will be brought forward in the cases of individuals with gender dysphoria holding the belief that life-changing physical alterations will make them happy.
“When bad ideas get put into practice, bad outcomes occur, and then the people who have been hurt will seek to hold those who hurt them accountable,” he said, adding:..
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Equal protection clause of the 14th amendment is violated???
When the civil war era politicians drafted the 14th amendment, they intended to create a civil right to body mutilation surgery?
Let the judge pay for those surgeries. The American people are fed up with the judges of this country making us pay for anything more. Just say no.
Is it elective surgery? If so, does Medicaid cover lipo and nose jobs?
Obama appointee....no surprise.
So elective plastic surgery and boob implants are now protected?
Take it to the Supreme Court. This is elective surgery, period.
Additionally more than 40 percent of those completing the surgery change their minds afterwards and/or become suicidal. Gender dysphoria is a very serious mental illness, adding or cutting off a d*ck is not a medically sound solution.
Taxpayers should not be forced to pay for this cr@p.
Do the taxpayers have any say at all? I wouldn’t want my tax money going to this insanity. I know 3 trannies and they regret having mutilated their bodies.
It’s in the little known and seldom used Johnson Clause of the 14th Amendment. It says if a man wants to chop off his johnson, the federal government must pay for it. Those wacky post-War Republicans . . .
It appears that until a few of these socialistic judges get their gavels rammed far enough down their throats for it to protrude from their rectums, this crap will continue. Just exactly what statue gives a judge the authority to decide what is and is not covered by Medicade.
Lack of money forces everyone to have to do without a lot of things, and one of them is “surgery for no reason except I want to be someone else.” So start getting used to it.
It should be considered elective but
“consensus within the medical profession (is) that gender dysphoria is a serious medical condition...”
Which is silly because being fat is also a serious medical condition so lipo should be covered if tranny sutgery is covered.
“Additionally more than 40 percent of those completing the surgery change their minds afterwards and/or become suicidal.”
One can only hope so.
insane!
absolutely insane.
Being a liberal means you latch onto every nutty idea out there but are never held accountable.
Judge William Conley is another Barack Obama appointee. It sure is funny that all the goofy decisions are being made by Barack Obama appointees. I wonder if he does not still have a finger in what is going on.
Just say No.
“... a serious medical condition, which if left untreated or inadequately treated can cause adverse symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, serious mental distress, self-harm, and suicidal ideation.”
The biggest sex change doctor in the country works out of Appleton WI. The doctor’s staff completely changes your gender, including your DMV issued drivers license with photo, and assistance in social construct. Huge enterprise. Follow the money to the judge.
Medicaid should also pay for judge’s lobotomy.
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