Posts tagged with ‘discrimination’

Clear Filters

… results in discrimination.

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
Amy Chen Uncategorized
*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…
Read more
August 13, 2020
More Broken Promises? Native Americans Endure COVID-19
David Machledt Coronavirus, Health Equity
In early July, the Supreme Court ruled that the eastern part of Oklahoma remains Indian Country for the purposes of federal criminal law. Oklahoma argued that decades of federal and state incursions and violations of an 1833 treaty with the Muscogee (Creek) Nation effectively dissolved the tribe’s reservation. Five…
Read more
June 4, 2019
Protections for LGBTQ People with Behavioral Health Needs
Abigail Coursolle Issue Brief
Despite progress in breaking down discrimination against LGBTQ people seeking access to quality health care, the current administration and conservative led states are working to rollback those protections as discrimination against LGBTQ individuals in need of behavioral health care goes unabated. National Health Law Program Senior Attorney Abigail Coursolle…
Read more
April 26, 2019
Federal Court Issues Statewide Injunction Against Wisconsin’s Medicaid Exclusion of Transgender Health Care
A U.S. District Court Judge in Wisconsin issued a preliminary injunction on April 23 invalidating the state’s categorical exclusion of coverage for medically necessary gender-affirming care and treatments for transgender Medicaid beneficiaries. The injunction bars enforcement of Wisconsin’s discriminatory exclusion, which has been in effect since 1997, to deny…
Read more

Posts tagged with ‘discrimination’

Never miss a thing.

Subscribe today.

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

More Broken Promises? Native Americans Endure COVID-19

Protections for LGBTQ People with Behavioral Health Needs

Federal Court Issues Statewide Injunction Against Wisconsin’s Medicaid Exclusion of Transgender Health Care