Will New Obamacare Rule Force Insurers To Fund Sex-Changes?

Taxpayers could wind up paying for sex-change operations under an Obamacare rule proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services. Yes, the same Obama administration that effectively endorsed Planned Parenthood’s organ-trafficking scheme is going after insurance companies that refuse to pay for sex-change procedures. While the wording of the newly-proposed regulation doesn’t technically force insurance companies to start paying for gender reassignment surgeries, it does say that HHS would investigate and sue insurers if they refused to pay for them.

 

 

Insurers and their customers aren’t the only ones on the hook for these procedures though. Plans on the Obamacare exchanges are subsidized with taxpayer money for anyone whose income is up to 400 percent of the federal poverty line. So federal guidelines pressuring insurers to cover hormone therapies or even sex-change surgery for transgender individuals would mean public funding for sex-changes.

 

 

If implemented, the 51-page set of regulations would add requirements to the ever-growing heap of bureaucratic nonsense formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. Section 1557, the “civil rights” section of the law, has already gained a reputation for being controversial last year after the Obama administration expanded it to allow patients access to whatever gendered facilities match up with their “gender identity,” regardless of their birth gender. Basically, if a male patient who identifies as a female wanted to use the women’s restroom at a hospital, he should be allowed to do so according to HHS.

 

 

[It would be] illegal to try to prevent a transgendered or gender dysphoric patient from “treating their condition,” which could include a sex-change operation.
But this newly proposed regulation would take it a step further, and make it illegal to try to prevent a transgendered or gender dysphoric patient from “treating their condition,” which could include a sex-change operation.

 

 

The language of the rule is a bit confusing on what exactly would be considered mandatory for insurance plans sold on the Obamacare exchanges to cover. While it may not explicitly require insurers to cover reassignment surgeries, the authority granted to HHS to investigate and prosecute insurers when denying treatment to a transgender patient could be enough to effectively force insurers into paying for them. Because we all know how insurers feel about getting sued, it’s likely they would err on the side of covering anything and everything related to gender transitions, in order to avoid investigations and lawsuits.

 

 

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