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Cost to military of providing medical care for transgender military
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:42:21 -0400
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From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> Date: July 26, 2017 at 12:11:33 PM EDT To: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>, Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>, Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Cost to military of providing medical care for transgender military (for IP, if you wish) We were told in an official Presidential announcement this morning that these costs would be "tremendous". There is a 2016 Rand report estimating those costs. Here's the summary: The Implications of Allowing Transgender Personnel to Serve Openly in the U.S. Military http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9909.html Here's the full report: Assessing the Implications of Allowing Transgender Personnel to Serve Openly http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1530.html j Excerpt from the first link: Using private health insurance data on transition-related treatment costs, the study found that Military Health System costs would increase by between $2.4 million and $8.4 million per year if it were to extend this care to transgender personnel. This amount represents an exceedingly small proportion of active-component health care expenditures (0.038-0.134 percent of approximately $6 billion in spending in FY 2014) and overall DoD health care expenditures (0.005-0.017 percent of $49.3 billion in actual expenditures for the FY 2014 Unified Medical Program). Please note that Politico recently estimated the cost for a Presidential trip to Florida (based on comparable costs reported by President Obama on an expense report for a Palm Beach trip) at approximately $3M. ---rsk
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