The latest edition of the gay newspaper The Washington Blade displayed what liberal newspapers don't find controversial: "Medicare to examine ban on gender reassignment." In other words, leftists are pushing the Obama administration to subsidize sex-change operations. We're posting enormous deficits, but the "progressives" are always searching for new entitlements.
As usual, liberal journalists refer to this lack of "access" to taxpayer money a "ban." Chris Johnson reported: "The document from the Department of Health & Human Services, dated Dec. 2, finds that the reasoning for the ban is 'not complete and adequate' to support denying Medicare coverage for transgender people seeking the procedure."
The HHS Department Appeals Board states the ban -- which is codified as National Coverage Determination 140.3 -- "fails to account for development in the care and treatment" for transgender people over the course of the last 30 years....
Masen Davis, executive director of the Transgender Law Center, was optimistic the ban would be lifted following the discovery process.
"Current Medicare standards are based on science from the 1960s, so it's about time for a review," Davis said. "Because the current scientific evidence overwhelmingly shows that sex-reassignment surgeries are effective and medically necessary treatments for some transgender individuals, we are hopeful the board will find the exclusion is not supported.Read the rest of the story HERE.
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""Current Medicare standards are based on science from the 1960s, so it's about time for a review," Davis said. "Because the current scientific evidence overwhelmingly shows that sex-reassignment surgeries are effective and medically necessary treatments for some transgender individuals, we are hopeful the board will find the exclusion is not supported."
Just what we need..huh? SENIOR CITIZENS deciding AFTER ALL THESE YEARS that they're not who they want to be.
I say...LIVE WITH IT..If it was ok the first 65% of your life, you can think about it A LITTLE LONGER.
Maybe we can make it a reward for all those who reach their 100th birthday? Then they can start the next century off ANYWAY THEY WANT.
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