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Relevance: Youth gender medicine. A frequent pod topic and Jesse’s beat
NPR says it got a leaked document from the Trump administration regarding federal reimbursement for youth gender medicine. It would bar Medicaid and CHIP from from paying for medical transition of kids. The proposed rules are expected to be released to the public in November.
A second proposal is to halt all Medicaid and Medicare funding to any hospital that does medical transition of kids. This is considered to be going much further
It’s unclear whether either proposed rule would survive legal challenges.
Preventing Medicaid from paying for transing kids is a pretty popular sentiment:
“He points to an opinion poll from the spring, which found 66% of the public opposes Medicaid coverage for this type of care for young people.”
It will be interesting to see what happens if they roll out these proposed rules. How much of a priority will the GOP make this? How much will the Democrats push back and how?