Discrimination in Health Care

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Reports & Toolkits | The Affordable Care Act: Making Insurance Work

August 28, 2013

This report looks at the ways in which the Affordable Care Act improves insurance coverage, ensuring that premium dollars go towards high quality, affordable, and reliable plans. We will also introduce a few of the millions of Americans who will benefit, and in some cases are already benefitting from, these health insurance reforms.

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Fact Sheet | Health Care Refusals Harm Patients: The Threat to LGBT People and Individuals Living with HIV/AIDS

August 06, 2013

Refusals to provide medically appropriate care to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and people living with HIV/AIDS can have serious emotional, physical, and financial consequences for patients. Refusals to provide care exacerbate stigma and discrimination already faced by LGBT people and individuals living with HIV/AIDS.  Refusals are especially harmful in emergency situations, rural areas, or long-term care facilities, where a refusal can simply leave a patient without access to necessary care.

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Fact Sheet | LGBT Americans and the Affordable Care Act

August 06, 2013

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals have long faced barriers to obtaining necessary health care. Thankfully, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) contains many provisions to help LGBT individuals obtain the health care they need and begin to address the profound health disparities faced by this community. This fact sheet explains some of the ways in which the ACA will benefit LGBT individuals.

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Reports & Toolkits | REPORT: Turning to Fairness: Insurance Discrimination Against Women Today and the Affordable Care Act

March 16, 2012

Through our research we have found that women are continuously charged more for health coverage simply because they are women, and individual market health plans often exclude coverage for services that only women need, like maternity coverage. The report provides an in-depth analysis of these inequalities and explains how the Affordable Care Act explicitly removes these discriminations by 2014.

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