Health Disparities – the bill specifically designates LGBT people as a health disparities population, opening up health data collection and grant programs focused on health disparities related to sexual orientation and gender identity. With collection of data and funding of research, we can better address the specific health issues facing LGBT people.
Unequal Taxation of Domestic Partner Benefits – the bill ends the unfair taxation of employer-provided domestic partner health benefits, incorporating the language of the Tax Equity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act. Without this tax penalty, more people will be able to afford employer-provided coverage for their families, and more companies will be able to offer these important benefits.
Early Treatment for HIV under Medicaid – the bill also incorporates the Early Treatment for HIV Act, which allows states to cover early HIV treatment under their Medicaid programs, instead of withholding treatment for Medicaid recipients until they develop full-blown AIDS, This will dramatically improve the quality of life for low-income people with HIV, as well as saving taxpayers money and reducing the transmission of the virus.
Comprehensive Sex Education – the bill provides funding for comprehensive sex education programs that focus not only on abstinence, but also reducing teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. After more than $1 billion wasted on failed and discriminatory abstinence-only programs, this funding will provide youth, including LGBT students, with the tools they need to live healthy lives.
Non-discrimination – the bill prohibits consideration of personal characteristics unrelated to the provision of health care. HRC worked with a coalition of civil rights groups to develop and lobby for this language and we believe it will help protect LGBT people from discrimination in the health care system, where there are currently no federal protections for our community.

Back to the thread…”LMAO at Aires….Lawyer, Liarrrrr…..been watching Madea?” — Name

Nope, never heard of Madea.

Health Disparities – the bill specifically designates LGBT people as a health disparities population, opening up health data collection and grant programs focused on health disparities related to sexual orientation and gender identity. With collection of data and funding of research, we can better address the specific health issues facing LGBT people.
Unequal Taxation of Domestic Partner Benefits – the bill ends the unfair taxation of employer-provided domestic partner health benefits, incorporating the language of the Tax Equity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act. Without this tax penalty, more people will be able to afford employer-provided coverage for their families, and more companies will be able to offer these important benefits.
Early Treatment for HIV under Medicaid – the bill also incorporates the Early Treatment for HIV Act, which allows states to cover early HIV treatment under their Medicaid programs, instead of withholding treatment for Medicaid recipients until they develop full-blown AIDS, This will dramatically improve the quality of life for low-income people with HIV, as well as saving taxpayers money and reducing the transmission of the virus.
Comprehensive Sex Education – the bill provides funding for comprehensive sex education programs that focus not only on abstinence, but also reducing teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. After more than $1 billion wasted on failed and discriminatory abstinence-only programs, this funding will provide youth, including LGBT students, with the tools they need to live healthy lives.
Non-discrimination – the bill prohibits consideration of personal characteristics unrelated to the provision of health care. HRC worked with a coalition of civil rights groups to develop and lobby for this language and we believe it will help protect LGBT people from discrimination in the health care system, where there are currently no federal protections for our community.

Back to the thread…”LMAO at Aires….Lawyer, Liarrrrr…..been watching Madea?” — Name

Nope, never heard of Madea.

Rico, you can wallow in your pathetic interpretations all you want. It is a fact that most Americans are NOT satisfied with the health care system's financial side…it's been running amuk for decades. That lack of national, collective and consistent oversight has allowed insurance companies, as just one part of the problem, to escape meaningful regulation for a long time. The 50-state patchwork regulatory system is so full of loopholes, it's like Swiss cheese. And don't think the insurers fail to recognizer that.

Tort reform. What a joke of an issue to hang your hat on…go ahead and reform it. Indiana has one of the nation's “best” medical tort laws, put in place by a doctor governor whose tax policies have choked us since 1973. He doubled the sales tax, in case you've forgotten, and put in place a restrictive med malpractice cap.

Which has not worked.

So much for your solutions.

We've done it your way for a long time, Rico. It's broken. Beyond repair.

Step aside. Those footsteps you hear in the background are President Obama and mindful legislators who will change this system. With or without you. (Note once again, like it or not, your failure to address our President with respect is indicative of your level of common understanding of protocol and decorum.)

Jump in. The water's warm.

And any time you want to debate the founders' intent, have at it. It won't be a fair fight, tho.

Poof. Be gone.

Rico, it was placed in 'case law' by a Lawyer in a Robe (aka LiaR).