Comment on CMS-2026-2081-0001
Eric HussarOtherIndividual
Summary: The commenter provides a list of medical categories they believe should be included in the health benefits framework while explicitly requesting the exclusion of gender transition treatments and abortion care. The comment does not express a clear stance on the overall proposed action (the Request for Information) but rather offers specific content suggestions.
Covered medical issues should include the following categories: ambulatory patient services;
emergency services;
hospitalization;
maternity and newborn care;
mental health, substance use disorder servs, incl. behav health treatment;
prescription drugs;
rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices;
laboratory services;
preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management; and
pediatric services, including oral and vision care.
Please do NOT included services such as hormonal or surgical gender transition treatments, or abortion care.
These do not have strong evidence of actually benefitting people in the long term.