Health Care Reform Bill: What it means for transgender person
We wrote about the health care reform bill back on March22, 2010, “U.S. Health Care Bill – Perhaps the Biggest Social Justice Issue Ever“ and we promised to cover smaller parts of that bill regarding women’s health and trans-people too. To start fulfilling that promise, we want to point our readers to NCTE’s site where they have done a decent job summarising what the health care bill may mean for transgender people, here are some excerpts but you should read the full post:
- Access to Healthcare: This is a biggie. The transgender community has a poverty rate as twice the national average. In a recent survey of over 6,000 transpersons by NCTE, 26% had been fired just for being transgender. While COBRA helps, eventually that runs out so having access at all to health care is a big help.
- Cannot be Denied Coverage or Dropped: Very important. While transition coverage is not mandated; you can’t be denied standard health care solely because you have a pre-exisiting condition or have been receiving treatment.
Read more at NCTE’s web site news, “Health Care Reform and it’s Impact on Transgender People” and another post at the NCTE blog, “Being a Transgender Person is no Longer a Pre-Existing Condition“
