[1]NNU - Medicare for All!

Happy Pride
Month! 🌈

We stand in strong solidarity with the LGBTQIA+ community and look forward
to celebrating Pride Month with our friends, family, and neighbors. This
month, and every month, we honor the trailblazing organizers who pushed
forward the fight for equality and continue this work.

At a time when trans rights — and specifically gender-affirming care — are
under attack by far-right legislators across the country, it's more
important than ever that we protect these services and make clear what we
know is true: Trans rights are human rights, and gender-affirming care is
health care.

We are proud to share with you that the Medicare for All Act of 2023,
introduced on May 17, was updated to explicitly include gender-affirming
care in the list of comprehensive benefits that would be guaranteed as
covered under a Medicare for All system.

[ [link removed] ]This is a critical step forward, and we want to share the news that
Medicare for All now includes gender-affirming care far and wide. Will you
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Leading medical organizations recognize that gender-affirming care is an
evidence-based form of patient care^1 that leads to better health outcomes
for trans people of all ages, reducing suicidality in a community
particularly vulnerable to its impacts.^2 Nurses know that
gender-affirming care is life-saving medical care for many patients, and
they will always fight for the well-being of all their patients and the
broader community.

While we fight to protect these services in states across the country, we
also have a vision of a future with true health care justice: a health
care system in which every person — regardless of age, race, ethnicity,
gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, and more — can get the
health care they need when they need it. That’s why we fight for Medicare
for All.

Together, we will work to achieve full health care justice and equality
for the LGBTQIA+ community.

In solidarity,

Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All

P.S. Read our latest [ [link removed] ]Medium post to learn more about how nurses are
organizing for gender-affirming care in their communities.

 

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