Submitted by NeitherAsk1441 t3_105c1jg in newhampshire
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Berzerk_Unit_Alpha t1_j3blkyw wrote
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Hereforthemadness1 t1_j3c0oo3 wrote
Doesnāt cover my personal steroid usage, why should it cover your personal choice? Pay for your own electives yourself and leave the funds available for people with actual need like, you know, cancer, serious drug addiction, auto immune diseases, etc.
Edit: let me be clear, if you want to get HRT, by all means go for it. If you donāt feel like your in your right body, do whatever you want. If youāre gay, go ahead, if you believe your a duck, go ahead and get webbed feet. All I say is donāt ask the taxpayer to fund your decision. I pay for my own steroids because Iām an adult. If your 18 and want to get your face tattooed, go ahead, pay for it yourself. Thatās what freedom should be. I support medical aid to those who canāt afford it, no one should die from a curable or treatable disease because they donāt have enough money. But for electives, personal choices like HRT, body augmentation or tattoos, that by no means should be funded by anyone other then yourself.
zetterbeauty t1_j3d3psy wrote
Get off your high horse, nobody gives a shit about your steroids.
Hereforthemadness1 t1_j3dhs6i wrote
Thatās good, no one should give a shit about my steroids, hence why I pay for them. No one should give a shit about peopleās personal issues, hence PERSONAL issues. If you feel the need to support people in their personal choices, feel free to toss some money in OPs direction to help them.
Emeleigh_Rose t1_j3e30w4 wrote
There are lots of health issues that you could say are personal choice. Smoking over-eating and obesitiy, addictions. I'm guessing you don't consider gender dysphoria an actual issue for trans folks or think it's a choice, so you prefer your tax dollars not going to it.
Hereforthemadness1 t1_j3f3xsu wrote
Frankly things like over eating and smoking shouldnāt be covered by public tax dollars either. Those again, hurt the individual, but not the community, therefore personal issue. The opioid epidemic was directly used against the PUBLIC by the big pharma companies, Purdue in particular. It damages the public as a whole, just look at Manchester if you donāt believe me, obesity and smoking didnāt turn that city into the relative shithole it is now. And (though the companyās themselves should foot the whole bill but we know that isnāt gonna happen) public dollars should be used to help those addicts and fight the inflow of drugs.
Helping obese people, smokers, and trans wishing to transition, is not a āfor the betterment of the publicā cause, but rather for those individuals themselves.
zetterbeauty t1_j3eyocv wrote
Look at his profile. Heās your run of the mill bigoted MAGAt.
Hereforthemadness1 t1_j3f3fsk wrote
See here you go, I didnāt say a single thing against trans people. I entirely encourage someone to express themselves, be it gay, trans, bi, religious beliefs, whatever. I just donāt think the taxpayer dollar should be used to further someoneās own personal beliefs. But I express that, no segregationist talk, no anger, no bigotry at all. Everyone is well within their rights and should have the freedom to pursue whatever happiness they want. But because I think thereās better uses for tax dollars, that makes me a bigot?
Our nation is widely divided on political lines already, and the ease of pressing the ābigotā button, on BOTH SIDES of the political aisle, only divide us futher. Rather then debate, you simply pressed the āhe voted for someone else therefore I can never agreeā button and took the east way out
zetterbeauty t1_j3f4gv6 wrote
Saying being trans is a choice is being against trans people. And in your comment further down in the thread, you seemed pretty angry when you eviscerated OP as a teeth gnashed who screeches about oppression, which they didnāt do at any point. Thereās no reasoning, much less debating, to be had with you.
Hereforthemadness1 t1_j3gvslm wrote
When did I say being trans is a choice? If you can show it I will apologize. All I said was it was a personal issue, not a public one, therefore not requiring public funding.
And anger wasnāt any part of that statement, but rather based on the OPs previous comments level of snarkyness and frankly, I have yet to see a trans person who doesnāt act like they are more persecuted then the Jews in Poland circa 1939.
zetterbeauty t1_j3dkuqn wrote
I am through my taxes, boo :)
Newgidoz t1_j3d2x9p wrote
Pretty sure they didn't make a personal choice to suffer from gender dysphoria
Hereforthemadness1 t1_j3dhmcm wrote
No, but neither did the rest of the taxpayers did they? Why should we foot their bill?
Newgidoz t1_j3diaml wrote
You think taxpayers should have to have chosen for someone to have a health issue before it can be insured?
AnythingToAvoidWork t1_j3cjxi5 wrote
Transition treatment is more akin to drug addiction treatment than elective like steroid use.
Both you can "just deal with" without dying but the mental strain results in stuff like overdose with drugs and increased risk of suicide for transitions.
Whether or not people on Reddit agree is irrelevant.
Hereforthemadness1 t1_j3cr4hq wrote
Sadly Iād agree except drug addiction treatment isnāt fully covered by the state, or else we wouldnāt still be in the epidemic we are. So Iāll stand by my point, itās something that should be treated with your own money. The system may be broken, but there are more pressing issues to address in regards to Medicare then the small amount of people needing HRT. Let HRT cover it AFTER they cover drug treatment. Frankly Iāve heard more about Trans in the last few years because itās a tiny issue being yelled loudest by the few. Meanwhile drug addicts go swept under the rug completely, when itās a dramatically bigger and more dangerous issue. Rampant drug addiction is a PUBLIC issue, therefore should be helped with public funds. Someone believing their a women or a man despite how they were born is a PRIVATE issue, and should be dealt with privately.
NeitherAsk1441 OP t1_j3cvxxc wrote
Drug addicts could help themselves but they'll lose their friends and stop being cool if they do that.
I just recently separated myself from the same kinds of people. It was easy: I made the choice.
Hereforthemadness1 t1_j3d1uj7 wrote
For someone presumably pushing the modern style of thinking in regards to gender and equality, you have a very antiquated view on drug addicts. Across the board, both society wide and medically, drug addiction, in particular opioid addiction which is the biggest issue in NH, and across the USA, is completely acknowledged as a chemical rewriting of the brain that the addicts themselves cannot simply ādecideā to change.
For someone who Iām sure wails and gnashes their teeth against the oppression and lack of equality of a very minor group of the population, Iām gently surprised at your total lack of insight or compassion to the victims of the opioid crisis.
Though I suppose Iām not surprised, many people are so self absorbed that anyoneās issues beyond the length of your own nose are not important.
zetterbeauty t1_j3d3wta wrote
Youāre making a lot of judgement based off of a perfectly reasonable question by OP. Are you projecting perhaps?
Hereforthemadness1 t1_j3dhit4 wrote
Projecting what? Iām well aware of my insecurities, personal demons and methods of dealing with them. I donāt ask anyone to help, I pay for it myself.
zetterbeauty t1_j3dl1ta wrote
You assumed they āgnash their teeth about oppressionā over a simple question they asked and completely eviscerated their character. You may not ask people for help, but you clearly need it.
Hereforthemadness1 t1_j3euz8a wrote
So good of your to offer your professional opinion on my need for help, kind stranger on reddit
zetterbeauty t1_j3eyk3l wrote
Glad to help :)
PowPowPowerCrystal t1_j3dg9nm wrote
Yeah the dudes who live in the woods on the edge of my town are real concerned with looking cool. Thatās a bad take.
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NeitherAsk1441 OP t1_j3a5c9n wrote
Stop getting pregnant.
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State Medicaid policy explicitly covers transition-related health care
ā¢ See NH Medicaid Care Management Program Member Handbook (p56; 2019)
ā¢ Formerly, state explicitly excluded transition-related care (see New Hampshire Medicaid
Services (Form 77L) (2017)). Ban lifted in Oct 2017
WapsuSisilija t1_j3abl5r wrote
I hope so.
NeitherAsk1441 OP t1_j3dqud2 wrote
They do, I just checked. Its EXPLICITLY covered. Remember to tell that to the trumpkins to get them extra red in the face. Explicitly :P
CDogNH t1_j3dqq9y wrote
Let's hope not.
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NeitherAsk1441 OP t1_j3ac4r3 wrote
You already did and you lost didn't you? You're not rioting anything. Go move to Florida, we can trade places.
seanwalter123 t1_j3ad64j wrote
Nah, that was a bunch of idiots who walked into a fed honeypot for a false god. Good one tho
NeitherAsk1441 OP t1_j3aeizp wrote
Uhhh, wut?
Whatever bro take your medicine.
seanwalter123 t1_j3aiola wrote
Seems like youāre the one in need of some medicine that you want me to pay for.
NeitherAsk1441 OP t1_j3ais3j wrote
And pay for it you will.
currentlyhigh t1_j3c4fy6 wrote
Very cool attitude, great way to get people on your side.
currentlyhigh t1_j3c49gj wrote
*gestures at your original post
ShallotSad3969 t1_j3c43vw wrote
It better not
Plenty-Cattle9791 t1_j3a6en8 wrote
OP , that was cold. Letās all be respectful. You wouldnāt want anyone being so rude in an answer to your question. Letās all do better this year
Novasadog t1_j3boqkr wrote
I don't think that nh reddit is qualified to answer the question. Your best bet would be to contact one of the transgender support groups in the area, such as: https://www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/transgender-health-program/patient-support-education
What I can tell you is that Nh medicaid (and nh human services in general) is notoriously cheap. NH negotiates fees ahead of time with the medical community, and not all doctors accept Medicaid because of this.
Good luck with your search.