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His health care proposals indicate a choice made between fighting for equity and taking corporate money to advance his career, a choice that is reflective of the type of President he would be.Ĭriminal justice reform is another key issue within the LGBTQ+ community. Where universal programs are designed to meet all mental health needs-something that particularly affects the LGBTQ+ community-Buttigieg’s goal was to meet just 75 percent of those needs.īuttigieg’s reticence to address these fundamental issues makes sense in light of the massive support he has received from the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries. Even if his plan ended discrimination (which it wouldn’t) and insured everyone (which it wouldn’t), it would still not address skyrocketing health costs, corruption, or the problems inherent to employer-sponsored health care. In other words, not only would Buttigieg’s plan keep many LGBTQ+ people uninsured, it would keep LGBTQ+ people uninsured at a disproportionately high rate.įinally, Buttigieg’s biggest oversight is avoiding any of the major systemic changes necessary to improve the system for everyone, especially the LGBTQ+ community.
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Buttigieg’s health care proposal makes no mention of LGBTQ+ health care needs nor provisions to improve outcomes for the community.
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Health coverage must be universal or explicitly account for structural issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community to address this disparity. This should alarm us, because we already know uninsured Americans are disproportionately LGBTQ+. Next, “Medicare for all who want it” keeps many uninsured by design the continued existence of uninsured people was acknowledged and accounted for in his platform. Alternatively, a public healthcare system has the distinct potential to mandate non-discrimination. Maintaining private insurance allows the private sector to continue to regulate and police what gender-affirming health care transgender and GNC people can access. For example, gender affirmation procedures, like hormone therapy and breast reconstruction surgery, are often covered by insurance for cisgender people, but considered elective or heavily restricted-and therefore often unattainable-for transgender or gender non-conforming (GNC) people. Perhaps Buttigieg’s most harmful flagship proposal is his infamous “ Medicare for all who want it.” The plan fails the LGBTQ+ community on multiple fronts: it preserves private insurance, still leaves many uninsured, and largely omits the major reforms needed to address the LGBTQ+ community’s unmet health needs.įirst, private insurance companies have a long and ongoing history of discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals. We need to bring the focus back to how Buttigieg’s policies harm the LGBTQ+ community and discuss the limitations of assimilation politics. Though his 2020 presidential campaign centered his potential to be a huge milestone for the LGBTQ+ rights movement, his tenure in South Bend and a close look at his platform indicate that, substantively, it wouldn’t be. Pete Buttigieg’s main claims to fame are his spotty record as mayor of South Bend and his “groundbreaking” 2020 campaign where, in spite of a resume that looked more like that of an IOP fellow than a competitive candidate, he was moderately successful and laid the foundation for high hopes in 2024. In the spirit of welcoming this year’s commencement speaker, I thought it would be valuable to start an honest conversation on who we are inviting to influence our community.