Obamacare Forces Taxpayers To Foot Bill For LGBT Gender Reassignment Surgery

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Obamacare is much more than just a new way to be forced to purchase health insurance, it is also a lifestyle modification device. A lot of American taxpayers are not aware that, buried deep within it’s thousands of pages of unread documentation, Obamacare mandates that LGBT people who desire to switch genders can do so on the public’s dime.

Devin Payne had gone years without health insurance – having little need and not much money to pay for it. Then Payne, who had a wife and four children, realized she could no longer live as a man.  

In her early 40s, she changed her name, began wearing long skirts and grew out her sandy blond hair. And she started taking female hormones, which caused her breasts to develop and the muscle mass on her 6-foot one-inch frame to shrink.

The next step was gender reassignment surgery. For that, Payne, who is now 44, said she needed health coverage. “It is not a simple, easy, magical surgery,” said Payne, a photographer who lives in Palm Springs. “Trying to do this without insurance is a big risk. Things can go wrong … not having the money to pay for it would be awful.”

Payne learned in the fall that she might qualify for subsidies through the state’s new insurance marketplace, Covered California, because her income fell under the limit of $46,000 a year. She eagerly signed up in March for an Obamacare Blue Shield plan for about $230 a month, and began making preparations for the surgery that would change her life.

“The law and policy are on a transgender person’s side for the first time,” said Anand Kalra, program administrator at the Oakland-based Transgender Law Center.

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