by lgbtei | Jan 8, 2019 | Blog
The Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly (CARIE) has developed a series of videos to educate individuals about Community HealthChoices. Community HealthChoices (CHC) is the new mandatory Medicaid managed care program in Pennsylvania for...
by lgbtei | Dec 3, 2018 | Blog
The Health Insurance Marketplace is open through December 15th for anyone seeking health insurance coverage for 2019 through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA established the Health Insurance Marketplace at HealthCare.gov as the way to enroll in an insurance...
by lgbtei | Dec 3, 2018 | Advocacy Alert!, Blog, Featured
The BOLD Alzheimer’s Act was advanced out of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) on November 29th and will now be considered by the full U.S. Senate. The bill, whose official title is Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD)...
by lgbtei | Dec 3, 2018 | Blog
By Heshie Zinman and David Griffith Published in the Philadelphia Gay News The landscape of HIV has changed a great deal over the past 30 years. Those in our communities who were diagnosed in the 1980s and early 1990s were essentially given a terminal diagnosis and...
by lgbtei | Dec 3, 2018 | Blog
“What Was It Like?” is a question often asked which has led to many entertaining, profound, and meaningful stories from the past. Now, “What Was It Like?” is a new video series from I’m From Driftwood: The LGBTQ Story Archive that spotlights first-person...
by lgbtei | Dec 3, 2018 | Blog, Gettin' On
By Mariel Lorenz Published in the Philadelphia Gay News One may have noticed there has been an abundance of ads from TV to billboards for Medicare Advantage plans recently. This signals that Medicare Open Enrollment is upon us! From October 15th through December 7th,...