All posts tagged "insurance"
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Lesbian Bar Denied Insurance Coverage for Hosting Drag Shows
Houston's sole lesbian bar may be forced to close if insurers refuse to underwrite the business because it hosts drag shows.
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Catholic Health Care System Restricts Same-Sex Fertility Benefits
OSF HealthCare, a Catholic hospital system out of Illinois, has restricted the employee health plan benefits it offers to LGBTQ employees. The health care system...
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State Farm Abandons LGBTQ Book Distribution Program Following Backlash
Insurance giant State Farm has abandoned a program to distribute LGBTQ-themed children’s books to teachers, community centers and libraries following public backlash and accusations that...
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California becomes first state to require insurance to cover at-home STI tests
California has become the first state in the nation to require insurance to cover the costs of at-home STI tests.
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Biden administration approves Colorado’s request to require health insurers to cover transition-related health care
The Biden administration has approved a request by Colorado officials to modify their state’s health exchange under the Affordable Care Act to require private health...
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Health insurance must cover all costs associated with PrEP, Biden administration orders
Department of Labor guidance instructs insurers to remove all costs associated with PrEP, including lab tests and clinic visits
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Arkansas lawmakers override Gov. Hutchinson’s veto of bill banning health care for trans youth
Arkansas lawmakers have overridden their own governor's veto of a bill barring transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming treatments.
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Arkansas lawmakers pass bill criminalizing gender-affirming health care for trans youth
Arkansas is poised to become the first state to penalize doctors who prescribe gender-affirming medical treatments to trans youth.
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Railroad employee health care plans agree to drop exclusions on transgender surgery
Transgender employees and dependents will now be able to reduce the out-of-pocket costs associated with surgery
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Over 300,000 transgender people at high risk of serious COVID-19 illness
Researchers noted a number of factors that increase trans adults' risk of serious COVID-19 illness
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Virginia Senate passes House’s version of bill banning conversion therapy
Measure billed as protecting LGBTQ minors moves one step closer to being signed into law
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LGBTQ activists blast Trump’s record on transgender issues following SOTU Address
President's critics pan his proposed trans military ban and actions on HIV/AIDS prevention efforts
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Advocates release “roadmap” aimed at ending HIV epidemic by 2025
Organizations call on federal government to expand health care access, promote HIV and STI testing, and address drug pricing
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Republican Congressman: Same-sex marriage will allow gay people to marry “everybody in California with AIDS”
Rep. Steve Pearce said in 2008 that same-sex marriage would lead to widespread insurance fraud and polygamy
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Trump’s ACA executive order could undermine LGBTQ health care
Trump's move could leave transgender people and those living with HIV facing extortionate costs
