It’s only a matter of time before all medical insurance providers and all hospitals and all doctors, are forced to allow gender reassignment procedures, since, all of those surgeries WILL Be redefined as medically necessary procedures because of ‘preexisting conditions’ where a man or woman feels they were born into the ‘wrong body’.
“It’s only a matter of time before all medical insurance providers and all hospitals and all doctors, are forced to allow gender reassignment procedures,”
Will insurance also have to pay to reverse the surgery for those patients who determine later in life they made a mistake? If so, how may times before it is considered “elective” surgery?
Meanwhile prostate MRIs are considered an “experimental” diagnostic tool. Prostate MRI’s, which are non-invasive, have a 95% success rate in identifying prostate cancer versus the 60% chance of success with the multiple hunt and stab needle biopsy process currently considered accepted practice by the medical profession and insurance providers. The prostate MRI has the added advantage of also imaging the bladder and lymph nodes surrounding the prostate which the approved needle biopsy procedure does not pick up.
More men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetimes than women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Yet insurance policies pay for periodic imaging of women for breast cancer as a preventative measure but won’t pay for imaging for men which could save tens of thousands of lives each year.
Yes, prostate MRI’s are expensive today because they are only performed at a few medical centers around the country. If they were approved for routine diagnostic, the number of locations performing it would increase geometrically and prices would come down to the level of a mammogram or less. Essentially men, who represent 49% of the population, are being denied a proven life saving diagnostic procedure for the most common cancer in men, because of cost.
Now insurance companies are going to pay for elective sex change surgery for less than 1% of the population at a cost many times that of a prostate MRI at today’s inflated costs. Do we as a nation have our medical priorities wrong?