Posted on 06/24/2015 10:18:05 AM PDT by jazusamo
(CNSNews.com) The Department of Health and Human Services most recent guidelines explaining the preventive services mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Actor Obamacaresays health insurance plans must provide co-pay-free pap smears and mammograms to transgender men.
As defined by the federal Office of Personnel Management: a person assigned the female sex at birth but who identifies as male is a transgender man.
The guidelines, written as a FAQ sheet, state:
Q5: Can plans or issuers limit sex-specific recommended preventive services based on an individual's sex assigned at birth, gender identity or recorded gender?
No. Whether a sex-specific recommended preventive service that is required to be covered without cost sharing under PHS Act section 2713 and its implementing regulations is medically appropriate for a particular individual is determined by the individual's attending provider. Where an attending provider determines that a recommended preventive service is medically appropriate for the individual such as, for example, providing a mammogram or pap smear for a transgender man who has residual breast tissue or an intact cervix and the individual otherwise satisfies the criteria in the relevant recommendation or guideline as well as all other applicable coverage requirements, the plan or issuer must provide coverage for the recommended preventive service, without cost sharing, regardless of sex assigned at birth, gender identity, or gender of the individual otherwise recorded by the plan or issuer.
The FAQ goes on to state: The HRSA Guidelines include a recommendation for all FDA-approved contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling for all women with reproductive capacity, as prescribed by a health care provider.
FDA-approved contraceptives include abortion-inducing drugs and IUDs.
CNSNews.com contacted HHS by email Thursday to ask whether the latest guidelines definitively mean that insurance companies must provide transgendered men with all forms of birth control mandated under Obamacares preventive services regulation. As of 12:50 p.m. Friday, the department had not responded.
As reported by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, 105 lawsuits have been filed against the federal government by plaintiffs who say the preventive services regulation violates their right to the free exercise of religion because it forces them to pay for or provide coverage for things in violation of their religious beliefs.
I hope all the dumb sh**s that put the idiot in the WH are happy now that’s he’s just about finished destroying the Republic.
Will medical insurance companies be required to cover problems with “male” genitalia on transgendered males (woman to man)? I could have stated this more crudely but my sense of decorum won’t let me.
OTOH, the mutilated, mentally ill "things" don't.
Oh, how I long for those heady days in early 2009 when it was only one outrage per month. It quickly ramped up in mid-2009 to one per week... and now, here we are.
I don't think we'll survive to see one per hour...
Pap smears and mammograms should not be covered for those transgendered from woman to man. No need... right? If it was covered, it would be sexist.
That is LOL funny.
In other words we have to pay the medical professionals to waste their time playing along with someone’s delusional fantasies?
The Soviets and Nazis also made a point of subordinating science to ideology.
So, do the transgender women get prostate exams, too?
It’s forced men to pay for pregnancy insurance all along so this isn’t new at all. But it is sick.
well, how does one get a pap smear if you don’t have a uterus/cervix? i don’t think they just slam one in if you decide to transgender :)
Idiots
More like a malignant rectal polyp..
“O what
A silly plight
To have been born
A hermaphrodite”
A Pap smear is a check for cervical cancer. Exactly why would they waste money checking for cervical cancer in a man - a person with no cervix? Liberals are insane.
Breast cancer is different. Men get breast cancer too, just far less often than women do. My guess is that men taking estrogen are at far higher risk of breast cancer than men without mental illness and the associated artificial hormones. If we’re nutty enough to let men pretend to be female, and give them estrogen, I think it makes sense to at least check those men for breast cancer.
I’m a man but I want to “identify” as pregnant. Can I get a leave of absence to have my baby?
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