article_snippet: For members of the LGBT community who live in more rural and conservative areas like Nebraska, the struggle to get good, or at least up-to-date, medical care may be even more difficult.
article_snippet: In general, legal protections and institutional supports for LGBT Nebraskans are already thin, spotty or nonexistent.
article_snippet: Without the legal institution of marriage, LGBT Nebraskans typically lack family health benefits, unless LGBT Nebraskans employers provide their employers to same-sex partners.
article_snippet: A 2014 study from the Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles found that states without LGBT legal protections in place see lower rates of health insurance coverage for LGBT residents than states with protections.
article_snippet: A 2014 study from researchers at the University of Nebraska Omaha found that LGBT residents in the rural parts of Nebraska have lower rates of health insurance coverage than LGBT residents in the rural parts of the state counterparts in urban areas.
article_snippet: Even when LGBT Nebraskans have health insurance, LGBT Nebraskans struggle to find providers versed in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender heath care needs.
article_snippet: Sixteenth largest in the nation by geography, members of Sixteenth largest in the nation by geography LGBT community often live far from large cities with significant LGBT populations and with teaching hospitals with staff members who have experience working with members of its LGBT community.
article_snippet: The Human Rights Campaign's 2014 Healthcare Equality Index named four Nebraska health care facilities, all in Omaha, as leaders in LGBT health care equality.
article_snippet: LGBT residents in western Nebraska -- for instance, places like North Platte -- have to travel 270 miles in either direction, to Omaha or Denver, Colorado, to reach facilities designated as leaders by The Human Rights Campaign.
highlights_snippet: A 2014 study finds LGBT residents in rural parts of Nebraska have lower rates of health insurance coverage .
  