{"id":829233,"date":"2026-08-29T00:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/829233\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T00:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:52:07","slug":"gay-bisexual-and-trans-people-struggle-to-get-health-care-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/829233\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay, bisexual and trans people struggle to get health care, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"CQXKYPOOJRHWJOO3VT4GB6IY6M\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">LGBTQ+ adults face significantly greater challenges accessing and affording health care compared to their non-LGBTQ+ peers, a new KFF survey of about 26,000  adults <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/public-opinion\/examining-lgbtq-adults-experiences-with-health-care-costs-and-access\/#7435a9ca-b979-408e-96be-3a9eb70e76b4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/public-opinion\/examining-lgbtq-adults-experiences-with-health-care-costs-and-access\/#7435a9ca-b979-408e-96be-3a9eb70e76b4\">found<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ZI4US42GI5G2DMGHUM2ZATYDOY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Gay, bisexual and trans people are nearly twice as likely as the rest of the population to forgo prescription medications. Nearly 6 in 10 said they had postponed or skipped needed care, and 3 in 10 said they struggle to pay medical bills. That\u2019s compared to 38 percent of non-LGBTQ+ people who said they skipped care, and 21 percent who struggled to pay medical bills. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LGBTQ+ adults face significantly greater challenges accessing and affording health care compared to their non-LGBTQ+ peers, a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-829233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}