Raising LGBT Voices for Health Fairness

by Michael Jones · 2009-06-12 14:44:00 UTC
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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.

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
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