[Infowarrior] - OT: Fwd: Cost to military of providing medical care for transgender military

[Richard Forno]

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk at gsp.org>
> Subject: Cost to military of providing medical care for transgender military
> Date: July 26, 2017 at 12:11:33 EDT
> To: Lauren Weinstein <lauren at vortex.com>, Richard Forno <rforno at infowarrior.org>, Dave Farber <dave at farber.net>
> 
> (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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