One of the top guardians of American freedoms just entered the fight against the Obama administration’s insane excesses in the name of “trans rights.”
The Department of Health and Human Services recently issued rules telling doctors they can’t decline to perform gender-reassignment surgery on kids if it’s recommended by a “mental health professional.” Refusal could be a career-ender.
How crazy is the rule? Well, for starters, most trans teens identify differently later in life — yet reassignment surgery is often irreversible, and even less-radical procedures can be harmful, as HHS’ own medical experts note.
Not to mention that the Hippocratic Oath (and basic human conscience) enjoins doctors from doing procedures they believe harmful to their patients.
On top of that, the rule also orders private insurers and employers to cover the procedures — even though Medicare and Medicaid, which HHS oversees, don’t.
Headed to court to toss the HHS rule is the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which is undefeated before the Supreme Court — capped by four wins when going up against the Obama administration.
Becket’s clients of record here include Franciscan Alliance, a religious hospital network, and the Christian Medical & Dental Associations; five states have also joined the lawsuit.
It seems an open-and-shut case: How can HHS possibly justify ordering a doctor to perform a surgery he believes harmful?
Even the mandate to employers and insurers is a clear overreach. If the rule stands, those who won’t cover gender-transition procedures will face severe penalties — yet HHS has no basis in federal law for declaring this to be essential medical care.
Indeed, a federal judge recently blocked another Team Obama trans-rights offensive for similar reasons.
The Education Department wants to withhold federal funds from schools that don’t recognize trans kids’ right to choose which bathrooms and locker rooms to use. But that, US District Judge Reed O’Connor found, utterly misreads Congress’ clear intent in banning “sex discrimination” in schools.
Bottom line: The administration is trying to impose its own trendy ideology across the land — in defiance of the law, science and democratic norms. Every friend of liberty should be fighting back.
Link to the regulation - https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-05-18/pdf/2016-11458.pdf
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He's such an ass. What doctors? Does he think that just any surgeon can do this type of surgery? And, even surgeons who work on adults are not necessarily pediatric surgeons. He is really an idiot. Kind of like when he criticized parents for taking kids to the ER for asthma (which kids can DIE from) and then said "just give grandma a pill instead of a pacemaker" as if there is some pill that replaces a pacemaker. And, as if years of medication don't actually cost MORE than a simple pacemaker insertion under local anesthesia. He should just shut the hell up as he doesn't know a damn thing.
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He's such an ass. What doctors? Does he think that just any surgeon can do this type of surgery? And, even surgeons who work on adults are not necessarily pediatric surgeons. He is really an idiot. Kind of like when he criticized parents for taking kids to the ER for asthma (which kids can DIE from) and then said "just give grandma a pill instead of a pacemaker" as if there is some pill that replaces a pacemaker. And, as if years of medication don't actually cost MORE than a simple pacemaker insertion under local anesthesia. He should just shut the hell up as he doesn't know a damn thing.
Did he really say this? When? That IS incredibly ignorant, but note that in England people over age 60 don't get pacemakers,
they are considered "redundant" and are expected to go home and die in peace.
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But there are other ways of ruining a doctor's career.
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Anyone that would allow such a life altering, permanent decision to be in anyone's hands other than a doctor and parents, is insane.
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Well, he may be gone in a few months, but if Hillary wins do you think she is going to change any of these policies he has dreamed up??
No. So all the "Never Trumpers" you are choosing to elect Hillary. If Donald does even ONE thing he claims he will do, the country will be far better off than if we elect her.
His lack of knowledge is astounding. He thinks it is "cheaper" to "just give someone a pill". Um no. Surgery may indeed be cheaper. Putting in a pacemaker under local anesthesia does have cost. But, a lifetime of pills also has costs. And, there isn't any "pill" that does what a pacemaker does.
His lack of knowledge is astounding. He thinks it is "cheaper" to "just give someone a pill". Um no. Surgery may indeed be cheaper. Putting in a pacemaker under local anesthesia does have cost. But, a lifetime of pills also has costs. And, there isn't any "pill" that does what a pacemaker does.
Well, I'm on a pill that helps regulate my heart Among other things.
I, may, eventually need a pacemaker.
My mawmaw takes a pill that regulates her heart and she is at the point of assessing if a pacemaker will be a viable alternative now.
But, yes, the pacemaker would be ideal.
But if you listen to Obama, it isnt about helping the person.
He said the elderly are waste.
It's better, in his thinking, to let them die.
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He didn't say to deny appropriate care (including pacemakers), he said to treat people smarter.
Treat kids with asthma earlier, so they won't need to be admitted.
What's wrong with that???
No, he said better end of life care and get rid of the waste.
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There are all kinds of things that it's illegal for kids to do that grownups have every right in the world to do. There's a reason for that. Kids are stupid and make decisions that change as often as the second hand on a clock (if they change that slowly!). Kids are also typically not held to the same responsibility standard for their decisions.
Sorry, but kids should not be having any kind of life altering surgery except to save their lives. Forcing doctors to do this goes beyond any goal posts of idiocy I'd already had set up for the Obama Administration.
