Governments often claim covering gender-affirming care is too expensive, but analyses show the costs are relatively low.
trying to deny state workers access to gender-affirming-related surgical care. Both states have dubiously cited high costs as their rationale for attempting to block such coverage. As the publication has noted, adding gender-affirming care to state workers’ plans would cost an amount that is practically insignificant — in North Carolina, for instance, where such care was paid for briefly in 2017, the health plan’s costs went up by just 0.01 percent.for trans and nonbinary people.
, with Republican-controlled legislatures and governors passing legislation or proposing bills to block access to such treatment — including nonsurgical options — through both private and state-sponsored health plans. While most of the bills focus on trans children, some GOP lawmakers are also pushing for bills to ban gender-affirming care“We haven’t seen these types of bills in previous years. This is a startling new evolution of what these bills can be,”earlier this year.
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