As we know only too well, real estate and insurance go hand in hand. You wouldn’t want to leave your most significant asset unprotected and if you have a mortgage, you are required to hold adequate insurance on your home. To get the skinny, I sat down with Ryan Hartwigsen, of Allstate Insurance, 4080 Centre…
A day after the news broke that Assurant Health Insurance would no longer cover the drug Truvada as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent contracting HIV, the company has reversed that decision. Mary Hinderliter, Assurant Health vice president of communications emailed LGBT Weekly today with the following statement, “We are reversing our decision and will be…
A national health insurance campany has announced that it will no longer cover the drug Truvada as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent contracting HIV. The insurance company, Assurant Health, have notified customers who had been taking Truvada (comprising the antiretrovirals tenofovir and emtricitabine) as PrEP, reports POZ.com. The insurer has stated that it would end…
With the rough rollout of Healthcare.gov, I was a bit tentative to begin looking at my health care options for Obamacare. You see, I am one of those people that had my policy canceled because it didn’t meet the requirements of Obamacare. I’m going to tell you about my experience with Obamacare. If you have…
January 1 marks not only the beginning of a New Year, but an exciting new day in health care as millions of Americans will now be able to access care, thanks to the coverage they found at the Health Insurance Marketplace. For many of the newly insured – people like Molly from Charlottesville, VA or…
As the military services are moving each day in the direction of better supporting LGB dependents (spouses, children, etc.), there are Ts in the military family that the DoD is failing to adequately support. We don’t hear much about these Ts in the military family, but within the military family there is no question that…
From a White House briefing on Obamacare and LGBT health by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius: Throughout the Administration, we operate on the fundamental belief that every American deserves equal opportunity, equal protection, and equal rights under the law. That’s why the Affordable Care Act is so important for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and…
thursday, aug. 1 Jess T. Dugan: artist’s talk Queer photographer Jess T. Dugan will give an artist’s talk at the San Diego Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Summer Break 2013: Double Portraits, which includes Dugan’s work. Jess T. Dugan is a gender variant artist whose work explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity…
Turning 40 is a big deal. This decade of life is a time when you really start putting it all together. Once you make it into your 40s, you have tried out different occupations and gained tons of work and personal life experiences. Finally things all converge when you figure out who you are, what…
A few articles ago I started a series called life stage planning. We only got through the 20s before DOMA was repealed and sidetracked us. But now we are back to continue on through our financial lives providing steps everyone should take as they reach different ages. Did your 20s pass you by without saving…
