President Joe Biden signs into law first federal anti-LGBTQ+ bill in decades
President Joe Biden signs into law first federal anti-LGBTQ+ bill in decades
The National Defense Authorization Act has a provision barring the military's insurance from covering gender-affirming care for service members' children.
Biden said that he and his administration “strongly opposes” restrictions on gender-affirming care for trans youth in a statement released after he signed the bill
Actions speak louder than words.
he should have sent it back and made them override it
Everything but surgery that leads to sterilization is still covered.
It was either that or shut down the federal government. Priorities exist.
Bullshit excuse. "Oh no we definitely had to make trans childrens lives worse because else the gooberment shuts down and there is no other way to prevent that but we’re definitely very very sorry and we would never make trans childrens lives worse"
What better way to say “we respect our trans friends” than letting the government shut down instead of signing an anti-trans bill?
(Well obviously it would be to get some pro-trans legislation in there, but at least try and be on the right side of history)
As a cishet guy... The Republicans have shut down the government for much stupider reasons than giving people critical medical care.
it was veto proof it wouldn't have shut down
US military pays for children hospital?? wtf
in America you either get private healthcare out of pocket, government assistance, or through your employer. I'm fact many people join the military because of the benefits it provides like healthcare and education. when your insurance is tied to your place of work, you normally have your children covered by that plan, otherwise the only option is to pay out of pocket. for somebody who joined the military to get healthcare, they probobaly won't be able to afford to do that.
In the US, healthcare is too expensive to afford out of pocket, so most people get health insurance from their employer, as an additional benefit. This covers the employee, their spouse, and their children up to a certain age.
In this case, it looks like people employed by the military will be prevented from getting full healthcare for their children, if those children are transgender.
To be clear, employers subsidize healthcare. They don't pay all of it.
A pretty standard rate for a family is $1800/month, with the company covering $1200 of that, and you covering $600.
And then when you need care, anything preventative, like normal checkups are free/covered. If the checkup finds something, it's no longer free. Most plans require you to pay all of it until you reach, say, $8000*. After $8000 in a year, you pay roughly 10%. After, say, $12,000 in a year, all healthcare is covered until January.
The 8k and 12k numbers do not include either the $7200 you pay or the $14,400 your employer pays a year in premium.
So if nothing goes wrong, you pay the minimum of $7200 a year. (And your employer pays $14,400 for you.) If everything goes wrong, you pay $19,200 a year. (And you better hope you don't lose your job for being sick.)
Service guarantees citizenship!
And education, on-installation daycare, etc. There's a reason a lot of people join the military, and its often not patriotism.
Source: am military brat, k-5 had teachers with doctorates. Tricare!
Biden is so unbelievably terrible. I blame everything that happens in the next 4 years on Biden, it should have been so easy to defeat Trump if the bidenocrats actually tried to improve the country, but they chose to be genocide supporting, anti American pieces of shit(maybe not, at least shit is useful). I voted Harris for harm reduction but really wish that the democrats could see how low the real support for them is.