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Judge Rules Taxpayer-Funded Medicaid Must Cover Transgender Surgery in Wisconsin
Breitbart ^ | 12/11/19 | DR. SUSAN BERRY

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:..

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: clownbammyjudge; judge; judiciary; medicaid; obamajudge; politicialjudiciary; transgnder; williamconley
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To: Enlightened1

Face it. Many judges are neither decent nor wise. In a sane world this would be appealed to the Supreme Court and if it were wise and decent, it would put an end to this lunacy.


21 posted on 12/11/2019 3:50:26 PM PST by allendale (.)
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To: Enlightened1

Let the funding come from the judges pay if they think it’s a good idea. I do not want my tax dollars spent on human mutilation of mind or body.


22 posted on 12/11/2019 3:50:52 PM PST by Pilated (.)
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To: Carl Vehse

“Medicaid should also pay for judge’s lobotomy.”

Interesting you should make that comparison. A doctor written article recently compared the two. He wrote, “Transgender surgery is the twenty-first century’s lobotomy.”

People are doing things that are trendy and they will have to live the rest of their lives with the results, long after the “fashion” has changed. Same with tattoos, but it’s easier to live with a tattoo on your butt than missing your male member.


23 posted on 12/11/2019 3:58:14 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Enlightened1

A Dorkbama judge-like almost life form no doubt.
We’ll handle he/she/it following CW-II.


24 posted on 12/11/2019 4:09:03 PM PST by Da Coyote (is)
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To: Hattie

Looks like this is what the people of Wisconsin wanted. First they voted for Obama twice and he gave them this judge and then in 2018 brought in a democrat governor and many blue house and senate state politicians.


25 posted on 12/11/2019 4:16:02 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Enlightened1

Judges with both political bias and an active judicial imagination are a great threat to our nation.

Personally I blame those who found penumbras and emanations in the Constitution for starting this trend.


26 posted on 12/11/2019 4:20:20 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Enlightened1

Yo Judge! Or is it Your Highness?
Who the hell died and made you King?

Impeach (seems to be the Rage these days)


27 posted on 12/11/2019 4:25:34 PM PST by TexasTransplant (Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
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To: Enlightened1

Sex changes should be mandatory for democrats as it leaves them sterile.


28 posted on 12/11/2019 4:36:10 PM PST by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: Enlightened1

We have got to rid the federal bench of these moron judges. How do we go about it? I mean, if you or I did something so stupid on our job, we’d be fired. This clown obviously does not know the first thing about actual civil rights.


29 posted on 12/11/2019 4:46:33 PM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: Enlightened1

Someday a state governor, backed by the state legislature, is going to tell a tyrannical federal judge to pound sand. The issue will be one where an overwhelming majority of the American people disagree with the judge. The judge will then be shown to be impotent. I hope this event occurs in my lifetime.

We must remember, many of the powers the federal judiciary exerts, particularly the arbitrary dictates of individual judges, are not enumerated in the Constitution, they were asserted by the judiciary and became “law” because Congress, the President, and the States acquiesced to this assertion of power. It is long past time to just say no to the black robed tyrants.


30 posted on 12/11/2019 4:47:45 PM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on i)
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To: Enlightened1
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.”

The lack of treatment does not cause these symptoms.

These symptoms are part of gender dysphoria.

Body mutilation is not a proper treatment for anything. Disfigurement of the body only increases the anxiety and depression.

31 posted on 12/11/2019 5:00:04 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Enlightened1; All

Veterans are prohibited from getting any type of dental work at any VA facility because it is considered “cosmetic”. But sex changes are ?


32 posted on 12/11/2019 5:03:26 PM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting here for the record hoping some might read and pass around)
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To: Hattie

Exactly. Liberal judges pensions must pay for ALL dickoffames!


33 posted on 12/11/2019 5:20:48 PM PST by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: Enlightened1; All

The twisted, criminal minds of America’s robed mullahs. What would SC’s John Roberts say? Oh...wait. The ATTACK (forced on citizens) continues. UNCHECKED.


34 posted on 12/11/2019 6:07:37 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization? Remember the republic?)
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To: Enlightened1

The country pretty much died after the Civil War even if the war ended. We are in the midst of a second civil war that will be the final nail.


35 posted on 12/11/2019 6:20:57 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Enlightened1

an Obama appointee
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The lunatic judicial appointments will be the longest lasting damage of the Kenyaneisan Usurpation.


36 posted on 12/11/2019 8:03:05 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: WWG1WWA

“Do the taxpayers have any say at all?”

I seem to remember a nation from the distant past that formed in response to—among other abuses of an oppressive government— “taxation without representation”.


37 posted on 12/11/2019 8:21:21 PM PST by unlearner (Be ready for war.)
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To: unlearner

Indeed.


38 posted on 12/12/2019 3:00:49 AM PST by WWG1WWA ("Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity." - Marcus Aurelius)
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To: Enlightened1

Sick bastard of a judge


39 posted on 12/12/2019 3:53:06 AM PST by okie 54
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To: Enlightened1

Like I’ve said before,
Whole lot of judges out there that cold use a good dragging down a rocky road behind an American made Pick em up truck.

Why the hell should I be made to pay for a freaks mutilation?


40 posted on 12/12/2019 3:55:41 AM PST by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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