Posted on 01/03/2015 11:06:05 AM PST by Rusty0604
HICAGO — Denee Mallon marveled at the view of Lake Michigan from her hospital bed in the Windy City, where she had just made history: the then 74-year-old transgender woman underwent a milestone sex reassignment surgery she'd sought for decades. "Here I am, finally, after all these years," she said. "It happened."
Her operation will be one of the first paid for by Medicare after she won a challenge in May to end the government insurance program's ban on covering such procedures for transgender individuals. Mallon's victory opened the door for other seniors to access this care and may influence whether more insurers - private and public - will cover them. LGBT advocates also hailed her case as another step forward to securing equal rights for transgender people.
The Medicare decision comes as the number of private insurance companies offering transition-related coverage has surged in recent years. Human Rights Campaign, which advocates for LGBT equality, said about 34 percent of the Fortune 500 companies today — up from 10 percent in 2009 — offer transgender-inclusive health care benefits, including surgical. Many employers have started to address coverage for transgender individuals, and most have experienced little to no premium increases as a result, HRC said in its annual Corporate Equality Index.
Five states' Medicaid programs — California, Massachusetts, Vermont, the District of Columbia and Oregon — cover transgender health services, including sex reassignment surgery, in their plans for lower-income and disabled people. Ten states have banned health insurance discrimination against transgender people (the five listed above plus Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington, and most recently, New York).
The hope, transgender advocates say, is that the Medicare decision will encourage more Medicaid programs and private insurers to offer coverage.
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“HEY Pal! How’s it hangin!”
Good factual information, but what can we do about it? States need to do more than just sue, it seems.
The English language just isn't suited to transgenderism. So what did this creature start life as?
I am well acquainted with Alzheimers and senility-but in both the people have delusions. Granny can think she’s 30 and a stripper again- so does she get surgery-free- to look hot and young again? Grandpa can think he’s Tyrone Power-is that good enough for plastic surgery? Why not? If medicine can make you what you THINK you are-and offers free mutilations rather than mental help-who decides a 70 year old can become a woman, and another can’t become, say, a Klingon? If it makes a senile granny happy-wait for it-complete makeover with implants and plastic surgery for FREE!
That’s not an easy question to answer imo. But for starters, parents need to start making sure that their children are taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood.
wasting money on this crap while denying old people care is ridiculous
Exactly. The only way I can tell what’s happening in such articles, it to remember it’s always the opposite of what I think.
Bottom line- if no one wanted it when you were a 74 year old woman, what makes you think anyone wants it when you’re a 74 year old man? Old and saggy is old and saggy and none of it works like it did in your 20’s, so what do they gain? Or are we talking perky new parts on old, wrinkly bodies? Maybe we can save money by trading the removed parts? Here’s some 70 year old boobs for you, and she gets your 70 year old penis ...major discount!
74! I have nothing against age, but I am practical. Can it ever have an “ O “ after the bandages are removed? Do hormone treatments on geriatric patients work, or is this just politically driven malpractice?
What do you say to this old man who had his penis surgically altered/removed?
I would have warned him beforehand that men are allowed to be ugly. Women aren’t.
Yo ‘Bama! I’m 59 years old and I wanna be a professional cyclist. I want professional coaching, I want my EPO, and I also want additional funds to buy off the USADA people.
I see virtual reality helmets as an economical alternative.
I had my first crew cut about 60 years ago. The barber warned me... “I canna cut it off, but I can’t-a put it back”
I think it’s the other way around: he was a man, and now he’s a “woman.” Maybe the removal of parts was what he cared most about.
Or marijuana.
If G-d doesn’t smite Washington DC, He owes the people of Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
Well, I suppose that’s one way to solve chronic prostate problems. Kinda drastic, though.
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