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Indianapolis City-County Council approves domestic partner benefits
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The Indianapolis City-County Council has approved an ordinance to provide health-care benefits to the domestic partners of city employees.
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HHS affirms health care discrimination law protects LGBT people
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed that it views a 2010 law prohibiting sex discrimination in health care services as protecting transgender and other LGBT people from discrimination based on gender identity and gender stereotyping.
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San Francisco program for uninsured residents to remove transgender exclusions
Nearly two years after a complaint was filed charging that “Healthy San Francisco,” the city’s health insurance program for uninsured residents, is discriminatory because it excludes services for transgender people, city officials are in the process of rectifying the situation and including such services in the program.
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OPM to extend health coverage to gay federal employees’ children
Gay federal employees will be able to cover the children of their same-sex partners under the federal health insurance plan once a proposed rule published Friday by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management is enacted.
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LGBT advocacy groups applaud Supreme Court ruling upholding Affordable Care Act
In a dramatic move with significant political and economic implications, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday (June 28) voted to uphold President Obama’s landmark health care reform law.
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HRC Report: 2012 sees progress toward LGBT healthcare equality
The number of American hospitals striving to treat LGBT patients equally and respectfully is on the rise, according to a report released Tuesday by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation at a press conference with U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
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Toledo mayor to introduce benefits bill for Domestic Partners of city workers
TOLEDO, Ohio — City employees who are partnered but not married could receive health care and other benefits under a proposed measure that would extend benefits to the domestic partners of Toledo’s employees, provided they have certified their status with Toledo’s Domestic Partner Registry.
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Federal judge: Denial of benefits to same-sex spouse is discriminatory
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge this week ruled that the denial of insurance coverage to the same-sex spouse of a federal court employee in San Francisco was an act of discrimination.
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Court rules against anti-gay Christian group’s effort to recall El Paso mayor
EL PASO, Texas — A Texas appeals court on Friday ruled against a coalition of anti-gay Christian groups who sought to recall El Paso mayor John Cook and two city representatives after they voted to restore health benefits to gay and unmarried partners of city employees.
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Michigan governor signs bill to ban healthcare coverage for unmarried partners
LANSING, Mich. — Following months of heated debate, Michigan Republican Governor Rick Snyder on Thursday signed House Bill 4770, eliminating health care coverage for domestic partners of public employees, and prohibiting any government entity in the state from providing such coverage.