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URL:https://srlp.org/events/medicaid-campaign-meeting-with-srlp-and-alps-t
 ransjustice/
SUMMARY:Where's the Love\, Shah? Medicaid Campaign Meeting with SRLP and AL
 P's Transjustice 
DESCRIPTION:\n\nA direct action sign making\, booty shaking and chant creat
 ing evening for trans and gender non-conforming community members and alli
 es.\n\nJoin Sylvia Rivera Law Project and TransJustice of the Audre Lorde 
 Project as we get ready for a radical Action for Trans and Gender Non-Conf
 orming Health Care Reform!\n\nHealthcare for transgender people isn’t sp
 ecial healthcare. It’s regular healthcare that non-trans people receive 
 every day when they need it. Transgender health treatments are safe\, effe
 ctive and medically necessary for many transgender people. Unfortunately\,
  healthcare is often denied to trans people due to misinformation and bias
 .\n\nThat’s why we are calling on New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and 
 New York State Health Commissioner Nirav R. Shah to repeal New York State 
 Medicaid’s regulation excluding transgender people from accessing care. 
 Medicaid is meant to ensure that low-income people have the care they need
  to survive\, and no one should be denied that just because of who they ar
 e.\n\nBy repealing the exclusionary regulation\, Gov. Cuomo and Health Com
 missioner Shah can ensure that transgender people receiving Medicaid have 
 the same access to essential care as all other eligible New Yorkers.\n\nAs
  the National Center For Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Les
 bian Task Force found: transgender people live in poverty at 4 times the n
 ational average\, a staggering 19% of transgender people report lacking an
 y form of health insurance\, including Medicaid.\n\nThe truth is that cove
 ring trans healthcare is affordable through insurance plans. As Basic Righ
 ts Oregon Points out: No jurisdiction\, employer or insurance company whic
 h covers trans health care has found the cost to be prohibitive. In 2011 t
 he city of Portland determined that the cost increase was only .08% of its
  healthcare insurance budget. Multnomah County has seen low utilization si
 nce 2001\, The city and county of San Francisco have provided comprehensiv
 e coverage for years with research showing no discernible cost.\n\nSo plea
 se join us and tell NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NYS Health Commissioner Shah 
 to let trans and gender non conforming people New Yorkers get the healthca
 re they need!\n\nwhen: february 12th (6:30PM-8:30PM)\nwhere: the audre lor
 de project\n147 west 24th street / floor 3\n\n**food and metrocards provid
 ed**\n\nfor more information get in touch with Reina at reina@srlp.org or 
 212-3378550 ext. 306\, or eliott at efukui@alp.org or at 212-463-0342- ext
 . 13.
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