"Medicare Ban on Sex Reassignment Surgery Lifted"

Water Cooler
#1

"Medicare can no longer automatically deny coverage requests for sex reassignment surgeries, a federal board ruled Friday in a groundbreaking decision that recognizes the procedures are medically necessary for people who don’t identify with their biological sex.

Ruling in favor of a 74-year-old transgender Army veteran whose request to have Medicare pay for her genital reconstruction was denied two years ago, the agency’s Departmental Appeals Board said there was no justification for a three-decade-old HHS rule excluding such surgeries from procedures covered by the national health program for the elderly and disabled."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/medicare-coverage-ban-sex-change-surgery-lifted-23930665

Finally, grandma and grandpa can get the coverage they need to surgically alter or remove their 65-year and older genitals.

#2

Two thoughts -

  1. Is there a sexual revolution going on among the elderly? Viagra changed the game quite a bit.

  2. Wonders of socialized medical care, where the government decides what the taxpayers should pay for and what the patient should pay for himself.

#3

Is it agist if I think we could cover this procedure for people in their twenties-fourties but start shaking my head when I read a 65 year old? I mean it is, but is that wrong?

#4

The downside that I can think of is that this change will attract free loaders to Medicare. That is, people will line up to get sex changes, even if they don’t need the procedure. In fact, when I turn 65, I should sign up. After all it is free.

#5

Well, if I can’t get it up anymore when I’m 65, maybe it makes sense to have the thing turned inside out…

…except I don’t get turned on by the idea of sex with men (bgac moniker notwithstanding). Maybe I can be a 65+ M-F transexual lesbian…