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A U.S. District Court judge denied North Carolina state officials’ request to dismiss a lawsuit filed last March challenging North Carolina’s blanket exclusion of medically-necessary, transition-related healthcare from the state’s employee health plan.
With more than 5.5 million LGBTQ individuals living in the United States, it’s important to recognize not only our progress in furthering equality efforts, but also the barriers LGBTQ people still face in fair and equal access to employment, housing, healthcare, and public accommodation.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation released its 12th annual Healthcare Equality Index (HEI), which scores health care facilities on policies and practices dedicated to the equitable treatment and inclusion of their LGBTQ patients, visitors and employees.
Lambda Legal and Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) filed a federal lawsuit against North Carolina officials on March 11 for discrimination in state employee healthcare.
“We are in a serious moral crisis,” Rev. William Barber II stated. Barber is qnotes’ 2017 Person of the Year.
We all have a stake in the fight against HIV and AIDS and we can all play a role in ending HIV and AIDS.
Trump’s executive order to dismantle portions of Obamacare could have a disastrous effect on the LGBTQ community, and especially those living with HIV/AIDS.
This could be truly disastrous.
I want my healthcare delivered to me to be personal, derived specifically for me and the exact opposite of community-wide healthcare. I don’t want to be a statistic anymore, and I couldn’t care less in what risk pool I’ve previously been placed or grouped.
Since November, those of us living with HIV have been watching the new administration with a mixture of uncertainty, fear and anger at the current diagnosis of the Affordable Care Act, as well as the laws’ future.
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