I understand where Obama is coming from with his newest order that hospitals and doctors that accept federal dollars must provide abortion and sex change surgery. I get it. After he leaves the White House, he wants to make sure they will have to give him sex change surgery so he can become a man. This order is wrong on many levels. First you have Catholic Hospitals and other facilities with strong objections to killing undocumented babies. Some also cannot bring themselves to perform sex change operations for the same reason.
Make no mistake, the religious based hospitals will not be the only ones who will be hurt. Every year there are 25,000 sex change operations in the United States. How can every hospital in America offer sex changes? Consider there are just two operations per hospital. Do these hospitals have to staff a section of the hospital just for sex reassignment surgery? At what cost?
However, there is a way for hospitals to avoid the new mandate. They can simply refuse patients with Medicare and doctors can refuse to accept patients who have Medicaid. Previously, doctors and hospitals were given incentives to accept these patients. The poor and the elderly will suffer the most and people wanting sex operations will see no benefit.
From the HHS (Health and Human Services):
The rule will require physicians, hospitals, insurers, and other healthcare entities that receive federal funds — such as Medicare and Medicaid — to include gender transition treatments and even abortion among their services for the alleged sake of “equity.”
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the final rule on Obamacare’s (Affordable Care Act’s) Section 1557 Friday, stating it will “help to advance equity and reduce health disparities by protecting some of the populations that have been most vulnerable to discrimination in the health care context.”
HHS states the rule covers:
- Any health program or activity, any part of which receives funding from HHS (such as hospitals that accept Medicare or doctors who accept Medicaid);
- Any health program that HHS itself administers;
- Health Insurance Marketplaces and issuers that participate in those Marketplaces.
The final rule requires that women be treated equally with men in the health care they receive and also prohibits the denial of health care or health coverage based on an individual’s sex, including discrimination based on pregnancy, gender identity, and sex stereotyping. The final rule also requires covered health programs and activities to treat individuals consistent with their gender identity.
For individuals with disabilities, the final rule requires covered entities to make all programs and activities provided through electronic and information technology accessible; to ensure the physical accessibility of newly constructed or altered facilities; and to provide appropriate auxiliary aids and services for individuals with disabilities. Covered entities are also prohibited from using marketing practices or benefit designs that discriminate on the basis of disability and other prohibited bases.
Covered entities must take reasonable steps to provide meaningful access to each individual with limited English proficiency eligible to be served or likely to be encountered in their health programs and activities. In addition, covered entities are encouraged to develop and implement a language access plan.
The final rule on Section 1557 does not include a religious exemption; however, the final rule does not displace existing protections for religious freedom and conscience.
This order is a thinly veiled attempt by Obama to transform the United States into a Godless country where no perversion is extreme enough to offend the senses.