Allocating limited resources
- I really need the Cruze to keep running with minimal repair and maintenance cost until we have at least $1000/month in new income.
- Bee is looking for an insurance plan that will cover a double mastectomy.
- She has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and considers this to be appropriate medical care.
- She is looking for insurance that would cover the procedure after Medicaid backed out shortly before she was to have the surgery.
- After explaining academically how insurance works (ie: how much something like this would probably cost out of pocket even with insurance coverage) and how to identify plans that would provide the coverage she wants (ie: talk to a friend who has insurance that covered it and track down their plan if possible; ask very detailed questions about coverage particulars like what their requirements are for covering a procedure) I feel a little bit responsible if Bee manages to accomplish her goal anytime in the next 2 years.
- I understand the thinking/logic in LGBT circles regarding such a procedure as medically necessary—cloaked in comforting terms like “gender affirming care”
- From an academic view on physiology that seems at least as significant of a bodily mutilation as elective amputation of an arm.
- To use an automotive analogy, it’s like turning a luxury car into a monster truck. In the imagination of an uninformed person it might seem like simply slapping huge tires on the car but the reality is that it requires rebuilding major systems like the suspension and transmission.
- Honestly, I hope that Bee finds other options to deal with the gender dysphoria.
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