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- September 15, 2022
How Changes to Section 1557 will Improve Health Care for LGBTQI+ People
Read moreLesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and plus people have historically faced discrimination in health care settings. Their health needs, bodies, relationships, and families are often scrutinized in ways that are stigmatizing and can lead to worse health outcomes. This blog, adapted from our Section 1557 Q&A issue brief,…
- June 13, 2022
Health Care Refusals & How They Undermine Standards of Care Part II: The Impact of Health Care Refusals, Discrimination, and Mistreatment on LGBTQ Patients and Families
Read more*Co-authored with Hayley Penan*This is Part II of the National Health Law Program’s two part blog series on the topic of health care refusals and how they undermine standards of care. Part I of the blog series was a very topline review of the topics covered in the original…
- January 31, 2022
Gender-Affirming Care for Youth is Still Good Health Care
Read moreLast year we wrote that “Laws should not serve as a weapon to criminalize and discriminate against our transgender and gender-expansive youth by preventing access to the health services they need. . . . Now is the time stand up for transgender and gender-expansive youth.” Unfortunately, legislators in…
- June 21, 2019
Medicaid as an LGBTQ Reproductive Justice Issue: A Primer
Read moreThe 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…
- April 8, 2019
How Medicaid Work Requirements Harm Women, LGBTQ People
Read moreHealth 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…
