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Medicare coverage ban on sex-change surgery lifted
Yahoo/AP ^ | May 30, 2014 | By LISA LEFF

Posted on 05/31/2014 1:41:50 AM PDT by kingattax

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To: metesky

Madame Dufarge (67) and I (70) have decided to change places after 47 years of marriage.
We’ll let you know how the next 47 work out...

One plus is between the two of you, all the necessary parts are in house.


21 posted on 05/31/2014 5:06:57 AM PDT by bytesmith
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To: Mark17

It really doesn’t huh? Hard to believe that people who’ve been one sex or the other their whole lives would want to change it in their older age. Even harder to believe that the stupid government would opt to pay for the elective procedure.

I’m reminded of a letter my dermatologist wrote years ago to the insurance company on my behalf regarding it being beneficial to my rosacea that I get light therapy treatments. Denied of course. Even upon appeal. So I suffered for YEARS with flushed, burning, scaly facial skin on nose and inner cheek areas. The treatments did become affordable but by that time the issue was under control with a prescribed skin supplement.

I can’t believe that just because a disorder/disease happens to be external, therefor affecting one’s appearance, they deem it “cosmetic.”


22 posted on 05/31/2014 5:11:54 AM PDT by kelly4c (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
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To: Soul of the South

My dad can’t get a hearing aid. What about HIS quality of life? But they’ll pay for someone to have their genitals reconfigured/mutilated so they can be the opposite of what mother nature made them. I just don’t get it. For that matter some old lady whose boobs have shrunk and who always felt like a busty female on the “inside” should be able to get implants.


23 posted on 05/31/2014 5:20:10 AM PDT by kelly4c (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
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To: bytesmith
One plus is between the two of you, all the necessary parts are in house.

She says I'm a cheap Greek, I prefer the term economical.

24 posted on 05/31/2014 5:22:05 AM PDT by metesky (My investment program is holding steady @ $0.05 cents a can.)
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To: kingattax

If it takes you 65 years to finally realize that you have been going into the wrong restroom all these years it’s not a sex change operation that is needed —


25 posted on 05/31/2014 5:24:20 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: kingattax

Elective surgery is covered now? Yippee! I want a tummy tuck!!


26 posted on 05/31/2014 10:56:03 AM PDT by jch10 (The Democrat mascot shouldnÂ’t be the donkey; it should be the tick.)
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To: kingattax

So a 75-year-old patient gets turned down for a hip replacement, but not for a sex change?


27 posted on 05/31/2014 10:58:09 AM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: kingattax

Next thing you know, they will be pulling people out of coffins and performing sex-changes posthumously.


28 posted on 05/31/2014 11:08:18 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Chode

LOL. no anesthesia either, right ?


29 posted on 05/31/2014 11:38:30 AM PDT by kingattax (America needs more real Americans.)
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30 posted on 05/31/2014 11:40:10 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: kingattax
none... well, maybe a mallet to the head, but that's it
31 posted on 05/31/2014 5:04:54 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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