Governor Cuomo Proposes Regulations to Have Medicaid Cover "Transgender Care and Services"

Governor's Press Office ^ | December 17, 2014 | Governor's Press Office

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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced new regulations to include transgender health care services under New York State’s Medicaid program. The proposed regulations provide treatment for hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery.... New York will join California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington D.C., which cover transgender health care through their Medicaid programs. In May, the federal government also ended its decades-long exclusion of coverage for certain services related to gender transition under Medicare.

The introduction of this Medicaid regulation follows last week’s announcement that New York State law requires private health insurance companies to cover transgender health care on the same terms as other care. It also follows New York State’s revisions to its birth certificate policy for transgender people. Pursuant to that policy, corrected birth certificates are issued when a licensed medical provider states that a transgender individual has received appropriate clinical treatment.

The public will have 45 days to comment on the proposed regulation.

[ubipetrusest]

Whose interests are paramount to Andrew Cuomo? Not the general public's. NYS home owners pay a county tax that includes a sum specifically allotted to Medicaid. Why should taxpayers be forced to subsidize surgical procedures that castrate and make men eunuchs? Similarly, why should they be forced to pay for other types of physical mutilation and hormonal manipulations? Note that Governor Cuomo has also forced the same burden onto NYS insurance companies. In another bow to the Brave New World Cuomo favors, NYS will now alter official documents such as birth certificates to change the holder's biological sex. The public can comment through February 2. But where does one comment? The press release does not give this essential information, so one is left to surmise comments should be directed to Governor Cuomo's office.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

They have a special mail box for comments behind the building.

[dayglored]

Everything else has gone straight down the shi++er these past six years, so why not make me pay for some confused individual's intentional self-mutilation, too?

Everything.

[NonValueAdded]

WTF, after all it’s OPM

[Eagles6]

Forcing me to affirmatively participate in another person’s delusion will not cure their mental illness.

[I want the USA back]

This was predictable. I knew they wanted to force the people to pay for sex-”change” operations, aids care, euthanasia and abortion.