Cost to military of providing medical care for transgender military

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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