Posted on 07/26/2018 6:40:39 PM PDT by EdnaMode
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Wisconsin to cover the costs for gender reassignment surgeries for two transgender Medicaid recipients.
Wisconsin residents Cody Flack and Sara Ann Makenzie filed a lawsuit in April over a state rule adopted in 1996 that denied coverage for undefined "transsexual" surgeries, according to The Associated Press.
In the suit, Flack and Makenzie argued that the state rule denying them coverage for surgeries to treat their gender dysphoria is a violation of the Affordable Care Act and their rights to equal protection. They argued that the treatment they are seeking is medically necessary, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
U.S. District Judge William Conley reportedly granted a preliminary injunction barring the state rules enforcement.
The judge also reportedly suggested that the injunction could be expanded to include covering surgeries treating gender dysphoria for any transgender patient on Medicaid whose doctor recommends the procedure.
"The likelihood of ongoing, irreparable harm facing these two individual plaintiffs outweighs any marginal impacts on the defendants' stated concerns regarding public health or limiting costs," Conley said in the order obtained by the publication.
Attorney Rock Pledl said Flack could possibly receive the surgery as soon as within two or three weeks. Pledl said Makenzie may have to wait longer to receive the surgery, however, due to the status of her paperwork process with an HMO.
The move arrives on the heels of an Iowa judges ruling last month that the state cannot deny two transgender women Medicaid coverage for gender reassignment surgery
Time to abolish all income taxes and property taxes
a-dam-men.
I’m confused...
Fine. Schedule the surgery in 2030.
How much money will this cost the taxpayers?
Much more than a box of bullets, unfortunately.
Cant imagine why this society is going down the tubes. Remove that judge.
Use the Kelo Decision by the USSC as Justification to Seize, through Eminent Domain the Personal Residences of Federal Employee’s in the State, turn them all into Bed and Breakfast’s, then use those profits to pay for the inferior court’s opinion.
Wisconsin should take the surgery costs from the existing judicial budget with no plus ups. Would even be better to come out of Judge’s pay or staff budget.
In which part of the Constitution is that written?
Good question.
Amazing. Health care will be rationed via death panels, but plenty of money to pay for this nonsense.
This isn’t fair. I have legit medical issues that affect my quality of life but my insurance through my job of over 20 years will not cover the needed medications so I have to do without.
I’m a lady with big boobs in a small-boobed body I should sue for the right to have tax payers fund my augmentation so I can be who I really am. /s
Couple hundred thousand for each of these abismal freaks.
Whole lot of “judges “ could use a good dragging down a rocky road behind a chevy pick em up truck.
HEadlines for these types of stories need to be edited to read “Wisconsin taxpayers”, for example. When NYC settles with the family of someone legitimately put down by a cop, “the city” doesn’t pay the family - the taxpayers do. These incomplete headlines have a “fake news” bias in them.
The good ole executive judicial branch giving orders just like the constitution lays out.
Judges cannot order expenditures.
It appears that many judges don’t know that.
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