"Proposals drafted by the Department of Health and Human Services would forbid federal Medicaid reimbursement for trans health care for those under 18, according to text viewed by NPR. Additionally, that proposal would also prohibit reimbursements via the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for trans patients below 19. Another proposed rule would bar all Medicaid and Medicare funding for services at hospitals providing gender-affirming care to youth, NPR reports."
"Katie Keith, director of the Center for Health Policy and the Law at Georgetown University, told the outlet, "These rules would be a significant escalation in the Trump administration's attack on access to transgender health care." Keith noted that the proposal to strip Medicaid and Medicare funding from certain hospitals would be "unprecedented." She explained that since Medicare makes up a large part of hospitals' revenue, it would force these hospitals to stop providing trans health care to youth."
"Joshua Block, senior counsel for the ACLU's LGBTQ & HIV Project, told The Advocate in a statement, "This proposed rule is an extreme and dangerous effort to put politics between families and their doctors. It is a severe encroachment on the freedom of these families to determine what health care is right for them while threatening transgender youth with the lifelong impacts of being denied the care they need." Block added that the ACLU would "strongly oppose this rule.""
The Department of Health and Human Services drafted rules that would ban federal Medicaid reimbursement for gender-affirming care for people under 18 and block CHIP reimbursements for patients under 19. An additional proposal would strip Medicaid and Medicare funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming services to youth, risking cessation of those services because Medicare comprises a large portion of hospital revenue. Nearly all U.S. medical associations support gender-affirming care for transgender youth. Civil rights groups including the ACLU and Human Rights Campaign oppose the proposals, calling them extreme and harmful to families and youth.
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