HHS Abandons Plan to Withhold Medicare, Medicaid Over Trans Care

Youth seeking gender-affirming medical care face continued uncertainty as state-level restrictions remain in effect across the country.

In a quiet but consequential reversal, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has stepped back from its most expansive federal effort to eliminate gender-affirming medical care for young people, choosing not to finalize a proposal that would have tied Medicare and Medicaid funding to the prohibition of such treatment. The decision does not resolve the deeper national argument over who holds authority in the space between a patient, a family, and a physician — it simply declines to settle it by financial coercion at the federal level. What remains is a country divided by geography, wh

HHS Abandons Plan to Withhold Medicare, Medicaid Over Trans Care

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