Report: Out2Enroll Campaign Offers Recommendations to Improve ACA Outreach and Enrollment in LGBT Communities
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The Affordable Care Act, or ACA, offers unprecedented opportunities to improve the health and economic security of millions of Americans, including members of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, communities. The first open enrollment period showed, however, that these opportunities may not be fully realized if outreach and enrollment efforts do not effectively engage LGBT people and their families.
A new report from the Out2Enroll campaign--a collaborative LGBT outreach and enrollment initiative from the
The report's major findings include:
* The visibility and effectiveness of LGBT-oriented outreach and enrollment varied significantly by state. * Stakeholders took advantage of a variety of strategies and opportunities to engage LGBT people. * LGBT outreach was complicated in many states by uncertainty surrounding outstanding policy issues related to relationship recognition for same-sex couples, transgender coverage exclusions, HIV coverage, and plan transparency.
"With one in three low- and middle-income LGBT people uninsured before the launch of open enrollment in 2013, the ACA's efforts to close the coverage gap are an incredible opportunity to improve the health and financial security of millions of LGBT Americans," said
The report's specific recommendations include:
* Outreach and enrollment efforts in every state should explicitly include LGBT communities. * LGBT-specific cultural-competency training should be provided for outreach and enrollment personnel. * Voluntary demographic information on sexual orientation and gender identity should be collected through health insurance marketplace applications.
Click here to read the report (http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/ext/2014/07/24/94428/key-lessons-for-lgbt-outreach-and-enrollment-under-the-affordable-care-act).
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