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  1. Aug 9, 2025 at 3:44 AM #1
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    HHS to Cut Medicare, Medicaid Funding for Hospitals Performing Child Gender Transitions | National Review

    If finalized, the rule — “Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Hospital Condition of Participation: Prohibiting Sex Trait Modifications for Children” — will “effectively end sex-trait modifications for minors nationally,” a senior administration official told NR.

    This policy change would have dire financial consequences for any health-care facilities that do not change their policies.

    “The rule essentially says that a hospital cannot get funding from Medicare or Medicaid for any of their services if they participate in child mutilation,” a senior administration official tells National Review. “In short, the concept is – hospitals cannot participate in Medicare of Medicaid if they provide sex trait modification services to minors, full stop.”

    While the rule has not yet been made official, hospitals across the country are already pausing or restricting many of their sex-trait modification medical interventions for minors seeking gender-transition services in response to the Trump administration’s aggressive pushback against the practice.

    This is great news
     
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  2. Aug 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM #2
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    It's sad that the "fundamental change" was also a direct attack on our children.
     
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  3. Aug 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM #3
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    Republican logic…. Poor people and the elderly must pay the price for the existence of trans kids….
     
  4. Aug 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM #4
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    Once again it's ironic that when Republicans were opposing Medicare and other forms of government health insurance they warned that politicians would end up telling doctors how to practice medicine. Turns out that they were right although ironically the politicians telling doctors how to practice medicine turned out to be conservative Republicans.
     
  5. Aug 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM #5
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    they're not telling doctors how to practice medicine, just telling doctors the government isn't going to be paying you
     
  6. Aug 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM #6
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    Given that most hospitals rely on Medicare and Medicaid for a significant percentage of their revenue it's a form of coercion in effect telling hospital and doctors what procedures can be performed. By the way almost no genital surgery is performed on minors and other procedures are very rare. There is also a difference between denying reimbursement for gender-related procedures and denying reimbursement for all Medicare and Medicaid funding as the proposed rule would do.