LGBT News Medicare Covering Trans* Surgeries?

Medicare Can Pay For Transgender Recipients' Gender Confirmation Surgeries: Feds

Thank you Huffington Post! Ignore the bigot comments below, but this is pretty cool!

 

Bump for being kinda a big deal.

 

Wow, this is good news. I hope that private insurance and medicade follow suit.

 

Well there's a couple grand future op trans* people can keep in pocket c:

Yeah, I certainly agree, and since private insurances usually have Medicare as a general baseline, I'd give it a year at most before some certain companies begin to do so.

 

This is really amazing. Please, please, please do the same Medicaid.

 

Awesome. Seconding the notion of hoping Medicaid/private insurance will cover trans medicine/surgery costs in due time.

 

I already paid out for FFS, I'd be thrilled to have free SRS. It'd give me an extra 25k to spend on other stuff! That's a lot of electrolysis and body contouring surgery, breasts implants and a vacation!

 

If all insurance companies start doing this, I am so getting top surgery! (!)

 

At first it makes me happy but then I remember that they'll call me too mentally unstable and I won't be able to have the surgery anyway...

And then I'm sad.

 

this is good!!!!!!
very excited!!

 

Awesome! This is a huge step!