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Health and WellnessFederal judge rules Wisconsin’s Medicaid program must cover transgender healthcare
The judge said that transgender health care is medically necessary and a state law forbidding the use of Medicaid money for “transsexual surgery” has been overturned.
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Health and WellnessElizabeth Warren stands up to Donald Trump on gender-affirming health care
Trump is trying to legalize more discrimination against transgender people. Warren isn’t having it.
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CommentaryStonewall sparked much more than the gay rights movement & you probably had no idea
From the Affordable Care Act to marriage equality, the fight for justice that sprang out of Stonewall is wide ranging and interconnected.
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Bias WatchThere are Christian health plans. They are as anti-LGBTQ as you’d expect.
The ministries will cover you if you aren’t queer and you aren’t sick. You’ll be praying for better coverage.
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CommentaryRepublicans keep attacking healthcare, but you’re the real target
Is this the type of country “we the people” were promised?
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News (USA)The judge who struck down Obamacare hates LGBTQ people too
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor has previously blocked protections for trans students and patients, as well as family medical leave for same-sex couples.
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Health and WellnessFinancial barriers still keep lesbian, gay & bisexual patients from medical treatment
Approximately 16.4% of gay, lesbian or bisexual adults avoided medical care based on financial hardship, compared to only 14.2% of straight adults.
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News (USA)The Trump administration is erasing LGBTQ people from government websites again
The White House removed language on the provision of the Affordable Care Act that prohibits discrimination in health care services.
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News (USA)
The Trump administration wants to make HIV a pre-existing condition again
The president thinks anyone with HIV should pay more for coverage – or not get it at all.
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News (USA)‘Phase two’ of tax cuts will likely impact much-needed health care programs
The original bill was devastating to a number of programs of value to the LGBTQ community.
