V. Saxena reports that Obama wants to make healthcare insurers cover transgender procedures:
On Thursday, President Barack Hussein Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — the same department that bungled up the Obamacare website — announced a new regulation that would force health insurers to cover a slew of transgender hormone treatments and sex reassignment surgeries, reported The Daily Caller.The new rule applies to every health insurer offering plans through Healthcare.gov or any of the state-run Obamacare insurance exchanges. It declares that insurers are prohibited from engaging in discrimination not only on the basis of sex, but also on the basis of gender identity.
In the past, several health insurance plans have categorically excluded health care related to transitioning between genders, often on the grounds that such procedures are often cosmetic, not medically necessary, and elective in nature. Now, such categorical bans will be disallowed, and insurers will have to cover many of the procedures.The problem is that Obamacare functions by forcing everybody else to pay higher premiums and thus fill up the subsidy pool for the poor and needy.According to the The Washington Post, transgender men and women are, for whatever reason, four times more likely to be poor, meaning “everybody else” — namely you and I — will wind up having to pay for these procedures.This rightfully irritates many Americans, including yours truly, because transgender procedures are “elective.”
Getting chemo treatment is medically necessary.Getting a bullet removed is medically necessary.
Getting a ruptured spleen repaired is medically necessaryGetting transgender hormone treatments or sex reassignment sex, on the other hand, is NOT medically necessary, which is why forcing the rest of us to pay for it is awfully shady!
It’s incredible how the government loves to put itself in as much as it can. The government’s job is to protect our god-given rights, NOT be involved in all this nonsense.
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