{"id":1199,"date":"2014-08-28T11:11:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2014-08-28T11:11:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:11:05","slug":"oregon-to-provide-trans-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1199","title":{"rendered":"Oregon to Provide Trans Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Via Basicrights.org<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a style=\"color: #336699;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/oha\/herc\/Pages\/index.aspx\">The Health Evidence Review Commission (HERC)<\/a>\u2014which is charged with overseeing the prioritized list of services in Oregon\u2019s Medicaid program\u2014the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #336699;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/OHA\/healthplan\/Pages\/index.aspx\">Oregon Health Plan<\/a>, voted today to approve the coverage of medically necessary healthcare for Transgender people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an historic step forward toward fairness and equality for transgender Oregonians,\u201d said Danielle Askini, Basic Rights Oregon\u2019s Policy Director. \u201cAll Oregonians need basic care to be healthy, and today\u2019s vote ensures that more Oregonians have access to medically necessary care by bringing Oregon\u2019s policy into line current major international treatment guidelines for Transgender people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basicrights.org\/featured\/historic-vote-for-transgender-healthcare-in-oregons-medicaid-program\/\">Click here to read the full article.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Basicrights.org The Health Evidence Review Commission (HERC)\u2014which is charged with overseeing the prioritized list of services in Oregon\u2019s Medicaid program\u2014the\u00a0Oregon Health Plan, voted today to approve the coverage of medically necessary healthcare for Transgender people. \u201cThis is an historic step forward toward fairness and equality for transgender Oregonians,\u201d said Danielle Askini, Basic Rights Oregon\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}