Bald Democrat Ayanna Pressley Wants Medicare to Cover Wigs
Democrat Ayanna Pressley wants Medicare to cover wigs.
Pressley reportedly lost her hair due to disease.
The New York Post reported:
Unlike many private insurance plans, Medicare does not currently cover the cost of wigs. Massachusetts Representative Ayanna Pressley would like to change that.
“[To] be bald as a woman really does disrupt conventional and societal norms of what is appropriate, what is professional, what is attractive, what is feminine,” Pressley — who has hair-loss causing autoimmune disease alopecia — told Vanity Fair in an interview Thursday. The same day, she unveiled a bill requiring Medicare to pay for wigs for those experiencing hair loss due to disease or medical treatments.
