Raising LGBT Voices for Health Fairness

categories: HIV/AIDS, LGBT Health Care, Obama Administration and Gay Rights

Published June 12, 2009 @ 02:44PM PT

Health care

Discussions over health care reform have certainly kicked up a notch over the past few weeks, as the debate over universal health care coverage benefits from the bully pulpit of the Obama administration. Lots of issues get raised when the subject of health care comes up, but all too often the voices of LGBT people are overlooked in the health care debate.

That's where Lambda Legal is stepping in. They've launched a nationwide survey to try and capture of the voices of LGBT people when it comes to the subject of health care. Together with advocates and medical professionals around the country, they are working to develop a platform for health care reform that addresses the issues of LGBT people and people living with HIV.

Click here to take their survey.

Click here to sign their petition to President Obama, calling for any health care reform in America to include full and equal access to all medically appropriate health care without discriminatory restrictions based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, HIV or family status.

The health care debate is an important one for our country to be having. LGBT voices should have a seat at that table to make sure the predicaments faced by our population are heard.

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Health Care must be provided on the basis of tolerance with discrimination against sexual orientation prohibited. In addition, it's good that Lambda Legal is doing the correct and necessary thing to make sure the LGBT community receives high-quality treatment in health care. Without the voices of LGBT people being heard, health care for them may not be as good. The nationwide survey is very important in making sure that LGBT people are correctly represented in health care.

Posted by Edwin Bonilla on 06/13/2009 @ 06:33PM PT
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Michael is the Communications Director for the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, and previously was Communications Director for Pax Christi USA, a progressive Catholic human rights organization.