Fear And Loathing Between My Legs: Navigating Medicaid Coverage of SRS
Obamacare Vagina: Navigating Medicaid Coverage of SRS, Part One By Rani Baker @destroyed4com4t Listen to this article I sat there, gently squooshing around silicone breast implant like a stress ball. Sqoosh, squoosh, feeling the weight of the rubbery tomato-shape in my hand. My surgeon was going over the results I could expect from this surgery. For starters, instead of the familiar round implant, I was going to have a firmer, teardrop-shaped implant. Among surgeons the implant has been given the nickname “Gummy Bear”; I was allowed to see and touch one of those as well. I felt the difference; the simultaneous rubbery firmness and gelatinous give. I was informed of drainage tubes, of calcification and rupture; seemingly Cronenbergian bioaugmentation complications that continue to populate my nightmares. I was told the surgery letters I had were not adequate for insurance, and that I needed both therapists to write new drafts specifically
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Fear And Loathing Between My Legs: Navigating Medicaid Coverage of SRS” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to healthcare and medicine, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning healthcare and medicine. Published in 2016 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is administrative classification and identity documents and healthcare regulation. It links that institutional frame to healthcare and medicine and transgender identity and history, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
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Themes
- 1Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community28%
- 3Technology, data, and platformsTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication23%
- 4Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life21%
- 5Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication15%
- 6Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict15%
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How “Healthcare and medicine” appears across the Collective corpus
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