Download This PaperRewritten Opinion, Smith v. Rasmussen
FEMINIST JUDGMENTS: REWRITTEN HEALTH LAW OPINIONS (Seema Mohapatra and Lindsay F. Wiley, eds. (Cambridge Univ. Press, expected publication 2021)
15 Pages Posted: 22 May 2020 Last revised: 28 May 2020
Date Written: May 20, 2020
Abstract
This chapter “rewrites” Smith v. Rasmussen, 249 F.3d 755 (8th Cir. 2001), which affirmed Iowa’s Medicaid agency’s refusal to cover gender affirmation surgery for a beneficiary. The rewritten opinion “conclude[s] that the exclusion regulation discriminates based on sex, thereby failing to satisfy the Medicaid statute’s reasonableness requirements.”
Keywords: Transgender, gender reassignment, Medicaid
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Konnoth, Craig, Rewritten Opinion, Smith v. Rasmussen (May 20, 2020). FEMINIST JUDGMENTS: REWRITTEN HEALTH LAW OPINIONS (Seema Mohapatra and Lindsay F. Wiley, eds. (Cambridge Univ. Press, expected publication 2021), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-25, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3606707
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