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June 21, 2019
Medicaid as an LGBTQ Reproductive Justice Issue: A Primer
Candace Gibson and Priscilla Huang Manual/Report, Guide, Toolkit
The reproductive justice framework is rooted in the belief that all individuals and communities should have the resources and power they need to make their own decisions about their bodies, genders, sexualities, families, and lives. Access to Medicaid coverage is vital to fulfulling this framework for LGBTQ people. Medicaid…
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June 12, 2019
Webinar: Trump’s Proposed Rollback of the ACA’s Nondiscrimination Protections
Candace Gibson, Wayne Turner, and Mara Youdelman Webinar
At the end of May the Trump administration released a proposed regulation that would undermine or eliminate key protections under the Affordable Care Act's nondiscrimination provision, Section 1557. The proposal targets LGBTQ individuals, people with limited English proficiency, women, people seeking abortion services, people living with HIV/AIDS, persons with…
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June 4, 2019
Q&A: Proposed Rollback of Nondiscrimination Protections Under the ACA’s Section 1557
Wayne Turner and Candace Gibson Q&A
In courts and through regulatory action, the administration is vigorously working to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA). On May 24, 2019, the administration released a proposed regulation that would undermine or eliminate key protections of the ACA’s nondiscrimination provision, Section 1557, from individuals who have experienced discrimination in…
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April 29, 2019
A Victory for ACA Marketplaces and Access to Health Care Services for Low-Income Individuals and Families
Candace Gibson and Fabiola De Liban Homepage
Advocates for access and coverage of health care for low-income individuals and families, particularly reproductive health services, have had to respond to numerous regulatory attacks since the inception of the Trump administration. Though we have suffered many setbacks, we do have one reason to celebrate.Every year, the Department of…
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April 8, 2019
How Medicaid Work Requirements Harm Women, LGBTQ People
Priscilla Huang and Candace Gibson Health Equity, Homepage, SRH Health Equity
Health care advocates celebrated when a federal judge recently blocked Medicaid waiver projects in Kentucky and Arkansas that condition Medicaid coverage on mandatory work requirements and other cuts to coverage. The Trump administration approved (and encouraged) states to impose such requirements in a backdoor effort to undermine Medicaid and…
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April 2, 2019
Be Bold When Fighting to Protect, Advance Reproductive and Sexual Health
Candace Gibson Homepage
Under leadership of women of color, young people, in coalition with reproductive justice, health, rights and LGBTQ groups who make up the All* Above All coalition, secured a historic introduction in March of the EACH Woman Act or Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance Act (S. 758,…
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Medicaid as an LGBTQ Reproductive Justice Issue: A Primer

Webinar: Trump’s Proposed Rollback of the ACA’s Nondiscrimination Protections

Q&A: Proposed Rollback of Nondiscrimination Protections Under the ACA’s Section 1557

A Victory for ACA Marketplaces and Access to Health Care Services for Low-Income Individuals and Families

How Medicaid Work Requirements Harm Women, LGBTQ People

Be Bold When Fighting to Protect, Advance Reproductive and Sexual Health