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Lawsuit challenges federal regulation forcing doctors to provide gender transition treatment for children

Lawsuit challenges federal regulation forcing doctors to provide gender transition treatment for children

Penny Starr

(CNSNews.com) – The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the state of North Dakota and health providers challenging a federal regulation that would force doctors and others to perform gender transition procedures on children even if it's believed these procedures could harm a child.

"The governmentdoes not require Medicare and Medicaid to cover these same procedures, because Health & Human Services' (HHS) [the agency putting forth the regulation] own medical experts found the risks were often too high and benefits too unclear," the press release announcing the lawsuit said. "Yet any private doctor who made the same decision about the risks would be in violation of the new mandate and face potential lawsuits or job loss."

Call it the Jonathan Gruber election
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Call it the Jonathan Gruber election

Ira Stoll

Jonathan Gruber is the Ford professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Mass. He got his Ph.D. at Harvard. As a White House consultant, he helped to design ObamaCare and was then caught afterward on videotape explaining its passage by talking about "the stupidity of the American voter."

Well, if anyone is "stupid" in this story, it's not the voters, but the academics that in their hubris designed an Affordable Care Act that became so unpopular that it became a decisive factor in Hillary Clinton's defeat. These economists and health care experts —Gruber and people like him —have fancy graduate degrees, but they designed a law whose results aren't exactly making them or the politicians they advised look like geniuses.

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