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February 3rd, 2010 BETH SLOVIC | News
 

Sex And The City

Will gender reassignment surgery be a new city insurance benefit?

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Mayor Sam Adams wants to expand health benefits for City of Portland employees to include, for the first time, gender reassignment surgery.

Terry Richardson, the mayor’s liaison to city unions took the idea to Portland’s Labor-Management Benefits Committee last week.

Under the mayor’s initial plan, city workers would get a maximum lifetime benefit of $50,000 for gender reassignment surgery. The total cost to the city hasn’t been determined, Richardson says.

The proposed change comes as Portland enters labor negotiations with almost all of its represented employees. About two-thirds of the city’s 6,000-plus workers are unionized. Seven out of the city’s eight union contracts expire in 2010.

The added cost of covering reassignment surgeries would run counter to the city’s push on other fronts to save money amid the recession. So far, management has floated the possibility of a four-day work week, furloughs and no cost-of-living increases.

Richard Beetle, business manager with the city’s Laborers Local 493, says his membership hasn’t weighed in on the proposal yet.

San Francisco has already adopted policies to have employees’ health insurance cover gender reassignment surgery, which typically exceeds $50,000. Seattle has not.

San Francisco began its policy in 2001, with lifetime surgical caps of $50,000. Despite fears the program would overwhelm taxpayers, city leaders decided the plan’s first four years proved otherwise.

Between 2001 and 2004, the city’s health plan paid $156,000 on seven claims, according to San Francisco’s Human Rights Commission. In 2004, San Francisco raised its lifetime surgical cap to $75,000.

 
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02.03.2010 at 04:45 Reply
Our schools are failing, our economy is in the tank, the city can't afford to maintain our basic infrastructure, budgets are being cut and some how Sam thinks we tax payers can or should foot the bill for this.

Someone please wake me up from this nightmare.

 

02.04.2010 at 05:09 Reply
Remarkable. I keep hearing the question "Is it ever enough for progreeeesives..is there no limit to their thievery of private property thru 'taxation'?"

Apparently not.

Only conservatism, clear thinking and bold questions will enforce the removal of progreeesives like that liar, Sam Adams; THAT will cure what ails us.

 

02.09.2010 at 05:55 Reply
Preposterous, outrageous, absurd. Sickening.

People are dying all over the world from totally preventable illness and rich countries are going to use their tax resources for what amounts to cosmetic surgery for their fortunate citizens?

Please pass the smelling salts..

 

 
 

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