"“taxpayer funding of sex rejecting procedures for children in Medicaid and CHIP [children's health insurance program], full stop”"
"“A vaginoplasty - a procedure a child does not need - costs $60,000,” “Shockingly, a phalloplasty, the creation of a penis, costs, on average, in America, $150,000 per child. I do believe, with doing some work, that these prices have continued to increase due to increased manufactured demand,” “A scrotalplasty, where you add testicles? That's extra.”"
"according to the Gender Confirmation Center, the price of a vaginoplasty is between $23,000 and $24,500, while phalloplasty ranges between $35,000 a"
Two proposed federal rules would prevent Medicaid reimbursement for gender-affirming care provided to individuals under 18 and would block Medicaid and Medicare funding for hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care. Medicaid covers low-income Americans as well as older and disabled citizens and is accepted at most hospitals, so the rules could have wide-ranging effects. The proposals include a characterization of gender-affirming care as "malpractice" and public statements citing high prices for genital surgeries without clear sourcing. Clinic estimates indicate substantially lower typical costs for vaginoplasty and phalloplasty than the figures cited.
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