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southdenverhoo

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So the question is, what's elective and what's not. And it turns on what is


(searching for the right word) somehow "essential to life" or not.

I think breast enhancement pretty clearly falls on the "elective" side. I think gender reassignment probably is an easier case to make for "essential" than birth control, whose inclusion seems frankly political to me. That said, you can make a case that ibirth control's inclusion is good policy, for economic reasons. But that doesn't change the fact that it is (almost always) non-life threatening (for the user of birth control) choice and therefore hard not to label, except in rare cases, "elective."

That it is political just means that coverage tends (perhaps with imperfect efficiency, I.e. trailing) to follow the majority of popular opinion about what's "essential"; it's ultimately "democratic."

(In response to this post by BocaHoo91)

Posted: 05/17/2016 at 10:02AM



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