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LGBTQ health care: How to get what you need as concerns rise over new division at HHS

Health care can be challenging for anyone these days, but getting the right services is especially daunting for the LGBTQ community, which has faced decades of discrimination and misunderstanding.

The creation last month of a Conscience and Religious Freedom Division in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is raising concerns among some health care and legal experts who fear the new division will have a negative impact on LGBTQ patient care.

"My best advice is to keep Lambda Legal on speed dial," said Ulysses W. Burley III, a physician and founder

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