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Mike Kennedy: “Medicaid shouldn't be paying for [certain medical…”

Featuring: Mike Kennedy, Republican | U.S. House Utah, 3rd Congressional District

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Published December 24, 2025 | Video Starts at 42:46

You shut down the flow of money and practices change. And, and people would say, yeah, Medicaid shouldn't be paying for [certain medical procedures]. that. Yeah, we shouldn't be paying for that. Which is why I voted for that bill. (42:46–42:48)

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Asserts that Medicaid should not fund certain medical procedures.

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“In 2023, we banned transgendered surgeries, cross sex hormones, and puberty blockers for minors in the state of Utah.”
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“We've already got a functioning law in the state of Utah that has shut down the University of Utah transgender Clinic.”
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“26 states in our union have passed legislation in this area.”
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“It's not even FDA cleared for children to be used [Lupron, a puberty blocker].”
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“Donald Trump pretty much disassembled the Department of Education and that on the federal level.”
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“One of these surgeries... is $150,000.”
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“The main thing is when the feds move in, then the state is forced out and we already have a law that is doing the job.”
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“It's not been litigated yet.”
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“The state of Utah defined marriage as well as man woman marriage, and I'm totally supportive of that.”
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“We made it so that lawsuits, it's hard for them to find a plaintiff and they haven't sued on the bill that I passed in the state of Utah.”
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“26 states, including Utah and myself, have already banned these things.”
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“I've already banned those kind of surgeries in the state of Utah.”
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“Invariably these children don't grow normally, that their bones are not going to grow right, their blood vessels, potentially many other…”
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“We don't have 20 or 30 or 40 years worth of data of using these kind of medicines on children that are normal.”
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“The studies are notably weak. They don't have long term data.”
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“The evidence that the advocates in this area promote, it's weak.”
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“The bill that I voted against last week, it's not a good bill for any number of reasons.”
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“The federal government has gotten way too involved in school systems, and that can be a major problem.”
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“Autism and special needs children may be more vulnerable to these ideologies.”
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“My bill and 23 ban in this stuff did, as well as what on the federal level we should look at is we're talking about minors.”
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“The nuanced legislation that we passed in Utah that has not had a lawsuit yet and it still stands.”
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“We expand the statute of limitations [in Utah]... a child that has been harmed can sue that doctor up until age 25 years old.”
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“We put in there that if any of these people feel like they've had harm, they have until they're 25 years old.”
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“There will be no reimbursement for procedures or medicines in this area of care through Medicaid.”
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“I voted for that bill [which targets the money flow for certain medical practices].”
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“Any hospital doing these procedures on minors is not going to have Medicare Medicaid reimbursements.”
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“We have a very narrow majority in the House of Representatives we have a three vote majority.”
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“When Marjorie leaves...we'll have a one vote majority.”
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“We expect my bill to be introduced in the next four weeks or so.”
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“We actually targeted a doctor's license [in Utah].”
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“We shut down the transgender clinic in the University of Utah that was operating.”
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“Medicaid's not going to pay for that [chest binders].”
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“It's not going to interfere with what Utah and 25 other states have already done in this area.”
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“We need to do on the federal level some things that could add to what these 26 states have done to protect children.”
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“I did in 2023 to try to protect children.”
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