BPR: “Squad” member Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts is facing pushback over her efforts to lobby for Medicare to offer coverage for hair loss.
Introduced on Thursday by both Pressley and Massachusetts Rep. James P. McGovern, the Wigs as Durable Medical Equipment Act is designed “to help individuals affected by Alopecia Areata and patients with cancer who are undergoing chemotherapy.”
Alopecia areata “is an autoimmune disease that has both a genetic predisposition and environmental triggers,” according to Lynne Goldberg, the director of the Hair Clinic at Boston Medical Center.
Goldberg spoke with The Brink, a publication of Boston University, last year following Pressley’s bombshell announcement that she suffers from this condition: more
The Eight Ball suffers from a lot worse.
I get stuff caught between my teeth. I demand Medicare give me free flossers and toothpicks.
And Liz Warren wants to include wigwams…
FFS Free wigs available if a woman can’t afford one though I’d be surprised if Medicare supplemental insurance wouldn’t cover it for chemo. Next thing – men who think they should be women needing taxpayer funded wigs.
There is an unbelievable cost of having it applied at the beauty parlor.
And who doesn’t NEED a new merkin every time she changes wig color…
How about reasonably priced eyeglasses? The hard cost for machined lenses/Tint/scatch guard and designer frames is no more then $50.
Free dentistry is a human right! (But I’m biased; I have the cost of a mid-price car in my mouth)
Buy your own God damn wig, you fucking cheapskate! I’m not buying one for you!
@Wild Bill: I’m a dentist. The less gov’t involvement the better.
Cynic, the one tooth dentist now that’s based irony.
As for cue ball, I would support her commie concept if we could provide free brains to idiots like her…
The reason commies love equity is because they don’t have the tools to compete with equality.
Heatsync, tell us how you really feel…
Every black woman would shave their head and demand a free weeg because that’s a thing with them. And say it with me, “WEEG”. It’s not a wig it’s a weeg. Like it’s not “kid’s” it’s “keeds”.
“environmental triggers,”
…such as tying your braids down so tight that you permanently pull your hair out. Which is what this fool did.
Stop using chemo hair loss victims to cover, literally, your own peculiar brand of stupidity and vanity, Ayanna.
“…following Pressley’s bombshell announcement that she suffers from this condition.”
Bombshell? I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
Seems Angry Egg is a little hard boiled lately.
@Tony R…
“Bombshell? I don’t think that word means what you think it means.”
Especially since 8-ball told everybody a year or more ago that she was cranially aerodynamic. Journos are always surprised by ancient history, and they think we should be, too.
Bald headed woman!
Bald headed woman to me…
Because there wasn’t enough Medicare fraud with hearing aids and motorized chairs?