I genuinely can’t believe that the for-profit, bottom-line, decline-if-at-all-possible insurance companies are covering these extreme high cost, experimental medical procedures. There is certainly more than sufficient evidence (as demonstrated by the LACK of studies on the value, efficacy, and safety of these surgeries) to decline coverage. I get the capture of political, media, academia, and even corporations who can get away with pronoun pronouncements and DEI departments, but medical insurance? This is real money. This featured procedure was a $600,000 misadventure, at least.
Like many Americans I have had to fight tooth and nail for basic coverage of prescriptions and medical devices for my child, who has a serious chronic medical condition. Items that were absolutely determined to be standard of care were denied and denied as being “experimental”. And these were things that actually kept my child alive, not some twisted vanity surgery for someone under a mental delusion.
exulansic has speculated that the requirements of obamacare (that insurance companies must pay out a certain percentage of their revenue either in medical bills or in returned premiums) have created an incentive for trans healthcare providers to promise kickbacks to insurance companies: “you need to find additional medical procedures to cover, because you’d rather gouge your own eyes out than return any premiums to your customers. i need someone to pay for this next surgery so i can keep this person on the hook. so if you pay for this i’ll pay you back a little something (under the table) for a win-win situation”
This is the internet age, everyone is connected. Journalists don't have to leave home to research stories. The information is readily available, so where are the CNN's, BBC's, The Time's, The Guardian's, investigations into this industrial medical, experimentation and exploitation? I should be able to go online to a 'reputable', mainstream media outlet and find the investigative documentaries. Greed and corruption? Who has the power to silence these stories, and why? How corrupt, and greedy can corporations, full of people be? This is happening to children. I'm sure your library of video's and essays form an important body of work, that will be referenced many times in the future. Thank you for your continued efforts.
I wonder if any nurses who care for these women would anonymously speak to you about what’s going on in these hospitals. They probably dont know they have allies.
Call me a pedant but Schechter is pronounced 'Shekter' not 'Skekter'. Otherwise a highly depressing account, but totally necessary. These stories should be required reading for anyone countenancing this 'journey'. As a penis-owner, I feel sick to the stomach when I read about the ignominious twists and turns that these poor sick people have to navigate in order to be able to pee while standing. A non-eyed trouser snake indeed. Heavens to Betsy.
I personally know a cosmetic surgeon, and if he'd done a "handful" of plastic surgeries on me, let's say what the industry calls a "mommy makeover" and then I came a few months later to him saying I was so frustrated at having to "deal with the 'inadequacies' of my own body to give me" the body/boobs/stomach whatever etc I want..., he would send me straight to a shrink and refuse to do any more procedures on me. He tells me stories like that all the time, about patients he sends away, because he believes his specialty cannot help them – they need psychiatry, not cosmetic surgery. But... maybe he's just one in a million and likes to sleep at night.
I genuinely can’t believe that the for-profit, bottom-line, decline-if-at-all-possible insurance companies are covering these extreme high cost, experimental medical procedures. There is certainly more than sufficient evidence (as demonstrated by the LACK of studies on the value, efficacy, and safety of these surgeries) to decline coverage. I get the capture of political, media, academia, and even corporations who can get away with pronoun pronouncements and DEI departments, but medical insurance? This is real money. This featured procedure was a $600,000 misadventure, at least.
Like many Americans I have had to fight tooth and nail for basic coverage of prescriptions and medical devices for my child, who has a serious chronic medical condition. Items that were absolutely determined to be standard of care were denied and denied as being “experimental”. And these were things that actually kept my child alive, not some twisted vanity surgery for someone under a mental delusion.
exulansic has speculated that the requirements of obamacare (that insurance companies must pay out a certain percentage of their revenue either in medical bills or in returned premiums) have created an incentive for trans healthcare providers to promise kickbacks to insurance companies: “you need to find additional medical procedures to cover, because you’d rather gouge your own eyes out than return any premiums to your customers. i need someone to pay for this next surgery so i can keep this person on the hook. so if you pay for this i’ll pay you back a little something (under the table) for a win-win situation”
This is the internet age, everyone is connected. Journalists don't have to leave home to research stories. The information is readily available, so where are the CNN's, BBC's, The Time's, The Guardian's, investigations into this industrial medical, experimentation and exploitation? I should be able to go online to a 'reputable', mainstream media outlet and find the investigative documentaries. Greed and corruption? Who has the power to silence these stories, and why? How corrupt, and greedy can corporations, full of people be? This is happening to children. I'm sure your library of video's and essays form an important body of work, that will be referenced many times in the future. Thank you for your continued efforts.
I adore your droll style. I would listen to you read a phone book, if I could find one.
I wonder if any nurses who care for these women would anonymously speak to you about what’s going on in these hospitals. They probably dont know they have allies.
Call me a pedant but Schechter is pronounced 'Shekter' not 'Skekter'. Otherwise a highly depressing account, but totally necessary. These stories should be required reading for anyone countenancing this 'journey'. As a penis-owner, I feel sick to the stomach when I read about the ignominious twists and turns that these poor sick people have to navigate in order to be able to pee while standing. A non-eyed trouser snake indeed. Heavens to Betsy.
I personally know a cosmetic surgeon, and if he'd done a "handful" of plastic surgeries on me, let's say what the industry calls a "mommy makeover" and then I came a few months later to him saying I was so frustrated at having to "deal with the 'inadequacies' of my own body to give me" the body/boobs/stomach whatever etc I want..., he would send me straight to a shrink and refuse to do any more procedures on me. He tells me stories like that all the time, about patients he sends away, because he believes his specialty cannot help them – they need psychiatry, not cosmetic surgery. But... maybe he's just one in a million and likes to sleep at night.