Capsules: Obama administration finds 3.1 million young adults gained coverage under law; LGBT community still has hurdles in health care equality

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Now on Kaiser Health News' blog, Christian Torres reports on the latest numbers regarding young adults' health insurance coverage: "More than 3 million young adults have gained insurance coverage under the health law, according to the latest government estimate. Obama administration officials touted the benefit Tuesday as an example of how the law is making a difference" (Torres, 6/19).

Also on the blog, Shefali S. Kulkarni reports that this year's Human Rights Campaign's Healthcare Equality Index "shows which hospitals and health care facilities score best on measures relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients, visitors and employees, is flashing some big numbers" (Kulkarni, 6/19). Check out what else is on Capsules.


http://www.kaiserhealthnews.orgThis article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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