LGBT Health Provisions Removed from Bill

Yesterday, President Obama signed into law an historic overhaul of the U.S. health care system. The expansion of access to health insurance to over 30 million people will benefit people from all walks of life, including LGBT people. Unfortunately, however, a number of measures specifically intended to address the health care needs of our communities were left out of the final bill. Among other things, the provisions that were left out would have ended the unfair taxation of employer-provided domestic partner health benefits, permitted states to offer early HIV treatment under Medicaid, collected critical health data on LGBT people, and addressed discrimination in health care.

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