{"id":1035387,"date":"2024-06-11T23:36:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T23:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1035387"},"modified":"2024-06-11T23:36:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T23:36:45","slug":"president-biden-and-vice-president-harris-are-standing-up-for-lgbtq-americans-health-care-while-trump-tries-to-rip-it-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/president-biden-and-vice-president-harris-are-standing-up-for-lgbtq-americans-health-care-while-trump-tries-to-rip-it-away\/","title":{"rendered":"President Biden and Vice President Harris Are Standing Up for LGBTQ+ Americans\u2019 Health Care While Trump Tries to Rip it Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In celebration of Pride Month, we\u2019re highlighting the wins that President Biden and Vice President Harris have secured for LGBTQ+ Americans \u2013 including expanding coverage and guaranteeing protections from discrimination in health care. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are trying to rip away their hard-won freedoms and rights.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DNC Director of Outreach Communications Tracy King released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Biden and Vice President Harris are standing up to MAGA Republicans\u2019 endless assault on LGBTQ+ Americans\u2019 access to basic health care. Since Day One, President Biden has been fighting to eliminate health care discrimination against LGBTQ+ Americans, bolster the Affordable Care Act, and protect access to zero-premium health insurance. Meanwhile, MAGA Republicans across the country are attacking LGBTQ+ Americans\u2019 rights and threatening to rip away their insurance coverage. This November, the choice is clear: President Biden is the only candidate working to strengthen health care protections so LGBTQ+ Americans can live healthy and authentic lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Biden is strengthening and protecting the Affordable Care Act,  which cut the uninsured rate in the LGBTQ+ community by more than half when it was first implemented. <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

KFF News<\/a>: \u201cDuring the early years of ACA implementation, the rate of uninsurance among LGB individuals fell by almost half<\/strong> (from 19% in 2013 to 10% in 2016), representing an estimated 369,000 fewer uninsured LGB individuals in 2016 compared to 2013.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center for American Progress<\/a>: \u201cThe ACA has been instrumental in making health insurance more affordable by expanding low-income households\u2019 eligibility for no- or low-cost public health insurance coverage through Medicaid and by directly subsidizing private coverage purchased by low- and middle-income individuals through the health insurance marketplaces. The high prevalence of poverty among LGBTQ communities\u2014particularly transgender people and LGBTQ people of color due to transphobia and systemic racism\u2014make both pathways to coverage essential to support the health and well-being of LGBTQ people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn 2013, before the ACA went into effect, 34 percent of LGBTQ individuals making less than $45,000 a year were uninsured. However, this number has dropped steadily each year in the wake of the ACA\u2019s coverage expansions, decreasing to 26 percent in 2014, 22 percent in 2017, and, based on nationally representative survey data collected by CAP, 16 percent as of June 2020\u2014indicating that the rate of uninsured LGBTQ people making less than $45,000 per year has halved since the ACA went into effect<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expanded subsidies included in President Biden\u2019s American Rescue Plan and extended in the Inflation Reduction Act gave an estimated 200,000+ more LGBTQ+ Americans access to zero-premium health care plans. <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Secretary For Planning and Evaluation<\/a>: \u201cIn addition to the ACA improving rates of healthcare coverage for the LGBTQ+ community, the ARP extends and expands Marketplace subsidies, <\/strong>which will enable many Americans including LGBTQ+ individuals to access more affordable coverage.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBased on the survey estimates above, if that same share (79 percent) of LGB+ enrollees in Marketplace coverage have a zero\u2010premium option under the ARP, this would total roughly 210,000\u2020 LGB+ Marketplace enrollees having access to a zero\u2010premium plan.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Biden expanded the ACA\u2019s protections for people with preexisting conditions like HIV\/AIDS and is fighting to keep IVF and surrogacy accessible.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Reuters<\/a>: \u201cThe Biden administration on Monday finalized a deal to preserve the federal mandate requiring U.S. health insurers to cover preventive care like cancer screenings and HIV-preventing medication at no extra cost to patients while a legal challenge continues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vox<\/a>: \u201cTo put it simply, the ACA was a \u2018watershed moment in the [HIV] epidemic\u2019s history,\u2019 as the Kaiser Family Foundation\u2019s director of global health and HIV policy, Jennifer Kates, told me in 2017. The law was designed to get more people access to health care, including those who were traditionally denied coverage because of \u2018preexisting conditions\u2019 like HIV,<\/strong> or who were driven out of the marketplace because their health care was unaffordable. And so under the law, the disease was no longer a barrier to health insurance.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HIV.gov<\/a>: \u201cUnder the Affordable Care Act, PrEP is free under almost all health insurance plans.<\/strong> PrEP is a preventive service and should be covered without charging you a co-payment or co-insurance. This is true even if you haven\u2019t met your yearly deductible. That means you can\u2019t be charged for your PrEP medication, the clinic visits to see your health care provider, and lab tests you need to get and maintain your prescription. There are no out-of-pocket costs <\/strong>for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HIV.gov<\/a>: \u201cThe ACA also authorized an optional Medicaid State Plan benefit for states to establish Health Homes to coordinate care for Medicaid beneficiaries with certain chronic health conditions. HIV\/AIDS is one of the chronic health conditions that states may request approval to cover<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


<\/strong>Pink News<\/a>: \u201cBiden slams \u2018outrageous\u2019 Alabama court ruling that frozen embryos are \u2018children\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow, president Biden has denounced the \u2018outrageous\u2019 ruling that puts access to \u2018some fertility treatments for families who are desperately trying to get pregnant\u2019 at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cIVF and other fertility treatments have been used by LGBTQ+ couples and single parents to expand their families. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor LGBTQ+ couples, the path to parenthood can be long and difficult, given that they face entrenched inequality in how the care is provided by health insurers and employers. Additionally, the costs of conceiving via fertility treatments can be high for LGBTQ+ couples.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden-Harris administration is fighting back against Trump and the MAGA Republicans who want to roll back protections for LGBTQ+ people in health care.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cThe Biden administration announced a new rule Friday expanding safeguards against potential discrimination of gay and transgender Americans seeking medical care, in a reversal of Trump-era limitations that nixed federal health protections for members of the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn a set of expansive new rules unveiled by the Department of Health and Human Services, the department moved to advance civil rights protections for patients by barring health providers and insurers receiving federal funding from discriminating against those seeking care on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation. The HHS rule restores Obama-era protections for transgender patients that the Trump administration rolled back in 2020<\/strong> \u2014 a move that was condemned by LGBTQ+ advocacy and human rights organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cThe Biden administration announced expansive new protections on Friday for gay and transgender medical patients, prohibiting federally funded health providers and insurers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe rule overhauls federal policy in an area that has become a political flashpoint, with more than 20 Republican-led states banning or restricting gender-affirming care for minors in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration successfully ripped away health care protections from LGBTQ+ patients.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cTrump finalizes rollback of LGBTQ patient protections\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump administration today proposed to scrap an Obama-era policy that prohibited health care providers from discriminating against transgender patients, in its latest rollback of federal protections for transgender people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe health department\u2019s proposed rule, a rewrite of an Obamacare regulation that bars health care discrimination based on sex, would also strike down protections for LGBTQ patients.\u201d<\/strong>
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Trump gave insurance companies the greenlight to make Americans pay higher out-of-pocket costs for care. <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n


Center for American Progress<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump administration has meddled with marketplace premiums in less transparent ways as well. Since 2019, insurance plans have been able to raise their premiums up to 15 percent each year without explanation because the Trump administration lifted the ACA\u2019s threshold for federal rate review<\/strong> from its previous 10 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDue to changes in the ACA subsidy formula that the Trump administration enacted through administrative law in 2019, marketplace enrollees who receive financial assistance will owe 2.8 percent more toward their premiums <\/strong>in 2021\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe tweaks to the index for the ACA\u2019s annual updates will also increase some patients\u2019 out-of-pocket costs. The out-of-pocket maximum rose faster over the past couple years than it would have absent the Trump administration\u2019s changes.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though the ACA helped those living with HIV gain better access to affordable care, Trump has tripled down on terminating the ACA if he retakes power.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Daily Beast<\/a>: \u201cTrump Revives Plan to Dismantle Obamacare if Elected in 2024\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vox<\/a>: \u201cTrump will have to stop sabotaging Obamacare if he wants to end HIV\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo put it simply, the ACA was a \u2018watershed moment in the [HIV] epidemic\u2019s history,\u2019 as the Kaiser Family Foundation\u2019s director of global health and HIV policy, Jennifer Kates, told me in 2017. The law was designed to get more people access to health care, including those who were traditionally denied coverage because of \u2018preexisting conditions\u2019 like HIV, or who were driven out of the marketplace because their health care was unaffordable. And so under the law, the disease was no longer a barrier to health insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe law also expanded access to Medicaid, the government health insurance plan for low-income Americans. And remember: More than half of people living with HIV in the US are low-income.\u201d
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Trump\u2019s administration rolled back Obama-era health care protections for transgender Americans. <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n


CNN<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump administration announced Friday it is eliminating an Obama-era regulation prohibiting discrimination in health care against patients who are transgender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The move \u2013 coming during Pride Month, an annual celebration of the LGBTQ community that takes place throughout the month of June, and on the four-year anniversary of the deadly Pulse nightclub shooting, in which 49 people were killed at a popular LGBTQ venue in Orlando \u2013 was swiftly denounced by LGBTQ groups, which see the action as discriminatory\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA rule enacted in 2016 interpreted the ban on sex discrimination to include discrimination on the basis of gender identity, <\/strong>building on similar interpretations in other federal civil rights laws and court rulings, and termination of pregnancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut the US Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement Friday that it was eliminating \u2018certain provisions of the 2016 Rule that exceeded the scope of the authority delegated by Congress in Section 1557. HHS will enforce Section 1557 by returning to the government\u2019s interpretation of sex discrimination according to the plain meaning of the word \u2018sex\u2019 as male or female <\/strong>and as determined by biology.\u2019 …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe American Civil Liberties Union said the move could cost lives, and the National Center for Transgender Equality called the move \u2018heartless\u2019 and said the administration is \u2018encouraging discrimination\u2019 with the rule change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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