Posted on 12/19/2013 7:22:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Center for American Progress, the Sellers Dorsey Foundation, and the Federal Agencies Project announce the launch of Out2Enroll, a campaign to inform lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities about new coverage options available through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and to encourage LGBT individuals to enroll in coverage. The Out2Enroll campaign kicks off on September 12 with a briefing at the White House that will feature remarks from Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, and LGBT health and health reform experts from across the country.
Out2Enroll will work at the national and state levels to link LGBT communities with their new coverage options under the health reform law. The centerpiece of the campaign is a website tailored to LGBT community concerns that will include information about key issues such as same-sex partner coverage, transgender-inclusive coverage, and LGBT-inclusive discrimination protections. Out2Enroll will also work with partners such as Enroll America, Community Catalyst, consumer health advocates, and LGBT equality organizations to host regional forums and conduct state-level advocacy campaigns to educate LGBT communities about available coverage and to encourage enrollment through the Health Insurance Marketplaces.
The Out2Enroll initiative is based on a new study revealing that one in three (34%) lower-income LGBT adults is uninsured, and that the majority of these individuals are not aware of the new coverage options that will be available starting October 1 of this year. This research also shows that targeted assistance from consumer assistance entities familiar with LGBT community concerns will be crucial to the success of efforts to enroll uninsured LGBT individuals in coverage.
"Contrary to popular stereotypes, many LGBT people are struggling with a lack of insurance and difficulty accessing health care," said Kellan Baker at the Center for American Progress, which commissioned the study. "The new coverage options available under the Affordable Care Act will be critical to ensuring that LGBT people can get the care they need, when they need it."
"Like so many people across the country, LGBT community members have questions about what the health reform law means for them," said Christopher Labonte of the Sellers Dorsey Foundation. "Out2Enroll's targeted outreach and enrollment program will offer the kind of community-specific information and resources LGBT people need to navigate these new options."
"Health is an LGBT equality issue," said James Williams of Trimpa Group, a partner of the Federal Agencies Project. "Out2Enroll will help make sure not only that LGBT people and their families have legal protections from discrimination, but also that they enjoy equal access to the benefits of health reform."
For more information about Out2Enroll and to learn more about supporting efforts to connect every American with appropriate health insurance coverage, visit http://www.Out2Enroll.org.
The Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free America that ensures opportunity for all. We believe that Americans are bound together by a common commitment to these values and we aspire to ensure that our national policies reflect these values.
The Sellers Dorsey Foundation is a private foundation dedicated to improving the health of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. The Foundation supports and leads efforts to improve health outcomes among the LGBT community through public education, collaboration, and grant giving.
The Federal Agencies Project is dedicated to making federal agency policies and practices more responsive to the rights and needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities.
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The mentally ill campaigning for Obamacare. Didn’t see that one coming. Don’t think they’re mentally ill and trying to promote an agenda? Watch theor videos and you be the judge.
“strap on some insurance”
“bend over and get driven to coverage”
Out2Enroll...
Sounds like a sushi platter.
Prepare for heavy AIDS in Obamacare hospitals. If they allow the blood donations and such.
Another liberal constituency that will get massive subsidies.
See what happens to the integrity of our blood supply when ObamaCare eliminates all restrictions and safeguards. Which it will do.
This organization is highly discriminatory and deeply unfair.
As an American male married to a female goat, I resent this sort of animalist thinking.
Here’s the video put out by this group.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azoWedQH8zQ
“They actually have sodomites called “bug seekers” who actively seek to become infected with the HIV virus. And others who seek to infect them, called “gift givers”.
Yup. Known that for a very long time. They’re sick bastards. Pukes actually. That’s why I never get into a physical fight with these freaks. They’re most probably infected with HIV.
>> AIDS
I’m hoping for something stronger and more virulent, with no treatment and no effective palliative care.
But that’s just me.
By the way, do you know what the first symptom of AIDS is?
Isn’t getting health insurance while being a promiscuous homosexual male a lot like building a house not by the river but in the river and then expecting to pay the same amount of flood insurance that someone who lives on a hill does?
Wow, hot!
Got her phone number...?
Never mind - if my two goat wives caught me, I’d be in it deep.
Absolutely! It seems like the left is going after obesity because they say we can prevent it, but they emphasize and laud the behavior that causes most of the aids cases.
I’m waiting for them to deny coverage to fat people ( a big percentage of Americans) and smokers, but continue to promote the homosexual lifestyle as an alternative normal relationship as they do in this video.
Here’s the video put out by this group.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azoWedQH8zQ
I also wonder if our taxes were used to pay for this video. I have a feeling they were. I’d like to be able to find out if our government is denying our disabled veterans all their promised benefits, while promoting a homosexual feel good lifestyle.
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