The state has identified six surgeons willing to perform gender reassignment surgery on convicted killer Michelle L. Kosilek, but none of the doctors currently performs operations in Massachusetts, according to an affidavit filed by Correction Commissioner Luis S. Spencer.
In fact, according to Spencer’s filing in US District Court in Boston that was made public Tuesday, there are no doctors in Massachusetts or New York who regularly perform the complex surgery, forcing the state to search the nation for doctors both qualified for the task and willing to perform it on a killer serving a life sentence.
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And zero taxpayers are willing to pay for it.
How NOT to modivate good behavior in society ... people who's health insurance would not pay for a sex change can get one if they commit murder!
This is true. We can't get our healthcare coverage to pay for some necessary care but we have to pay for this?
Let some sex offender do it.
This is what happens . . . not when liberals run the state, but when a Department of Corrections (a massive, $1B bureaucracy) decides to make up and enforce its own rules, costing the commonwealth well over $1M in a losing position (denying health care to a prisoner). People might argue over the underlying medical condition in this case, but the point is made that all individuals, incarcerated or not, can advocate for their rights (from guns to voting to housing to non-discrimination at work) through the judicial system. The DOC lost the case. It was always going to lose this case. Now it's determined to lose more of the taxpayers' funds. Enough. The DOC warehouses convicted men and women. It does not exist to make public policy. Withdraw the appeal and complete the surgery. That has always been the least expensive option in this ridiculous and false display of governmental power. Enough!