lgbtq healthcare reform opportunities for engagement
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LGBTQ Healthcare
ReformOpportunities for
Engagement
Objective
1. Start the discussion
2. Identify opportunities for advocacy
3. Encourage LGBTQ people to get involved!
Background and MissionTo advance the health and
wellness of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer
communities through research, education and advocacy.
Rainbow Health Initiative advances health equity
for all LGBTQ people by:
• Deliver essential resources to improve community health.
• Expand access and availability to culturally competent care.
• Improve the health of the LGBTQ community.
• Ensure that LGBTQ health is part of the public dialogue.
Impact Goals
Healthcare Reform Task Force
Who:
Commissioners
Legislators
Private Sector
Representatives
Charged with developing strategies that:
- Improve access to health care for all Minnesotans
- Lower health care costs by reforming how we pay for health care and changing the incentives, so we encourage preventative care and reward healthy outcomes, not sickness.
- Improve the health of all Minnesotans and address the huge health disparities that plague our state.
http://mn.gov/health-reform
Roadmap to a Healthier Minnesota
Draft Document
Recommendations of the MN Health Reform Task Force
to Governor Dayton
Opportunities and Challenges
DRAFT
Open for comment
Meetings are open to the public
History
Controversial
Lack of federal mandate
What we can do!
Provide Public Comment in 3 Easy Steps:
Step One: You don’t need to understand every inch of healthcare reform to have a valid opinion of how our systems should be inclusive of all people. Step Two: Look at the Roadmap (or skim it). It is very large (37 pages)
Step Three: By December 10th, 2012 let the task force know what you think about the fact that their recommendations leave out the LGBTQ population in MN.
Read the Roadmap
Step Two: Look at the Roadmap (or skim it). It is very large (37 pages)
Find the document here:http://mn.gov/health-reform/images/TaskForce-2012-11-29-DraftRoadmap.pdf
Please see page 29-Strategy Element #22 Implement best practices for collection and reporting of data by healthcare providers and
payers on detailed categories of race, ethnicity, and language linked to health disparities.
If we are not counted, we do not exist!
We need to ensure that sexual orientation and gender identity are added as detailed categories. Not doing so perpetuates the HEALTH
DISPARITIES experienced by people due to their orientation and identity. LGBTQ people will continue to experience significant health disparities
until we fix this system of exclusion!
Why Focus on Data Collection?
• If you don’t ask you don’t know
• If we are not counted we do not exist
• Health disparities, documentation, improvement
• Funding, resources, research, programming
• Ultimate goal of health equity for all communities!
Deadline is December 10th,2012
Comment By:
Writing a letter, emailing and using
social media
Providing Public Comment
Step Three: let the task force know what you think about the fact that their recommendations leave out the LGBTQ population in MN.
Take Action: Ensure LGBTQ InclusionEmail: Healthreform.MN@state.mn.us
• A comment in the body of the email• Attach a letter to the task force
More Ways To Get Involved:
• A good ol’ fashon organizing
• Make a phone call
• Have a one on one
Take Action: Continued
@GovMarkDayton prioritize health equity in MN Healthcare reform @rainbowhealth #LGBTinclusion
@GovMarkDayton Minneapolis ranks 4th in the nation for LGB population MN Healthcare reform needs to include this population! @rainbowhealth #LGBTinclusion
Also make sure to follow us! @rainbowhealth
Take Action: Continued
• Update your status about the Roadmap or anything you learned today
• Share Rainbow Health Posts about reform
• Ask ONE friend to do the same
Thank you!
Contact Us:Ani Koch
Director of Programs ani.koch@rainbowhealth.org
612-206-3180
A new website coming soon! www.rainbowhealth.org
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