FAST FACT: Happy Pride! Health Care Reform and More
June 25, 2009 posted by Kyla Bender-Baird
In honor of LGBT Pride Month, I bring you this fast fact from the recently released New York LGBT Health and Human Services Needs Assessment:
“According to NYC Community Health Survey data, 28.3% of lesbian and gay people in the sample did not have a primary care provider, compared to 17.4% of heterosexual people. However, 4.8% of those in the Needs Assessment survey did not have a regular source of non-emergency care, or used the emergency room as a usual source of care.”
The report found that top barriers to health care access for LGBT New Yorkers include financial burdens and a lack of cultural competency among health care provides. Including the LGBT population in health care reform is vital, as Simon Aronoff discusses on the Bilerico Project: “Raise LGBT and HIV Positive Voices in Health Care Reform.”
And for your reading pleasure this Pride, check out:
LGBT Pride Month: Get the Facts
Why is gay pride so gay?
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