HHS has been working for years to undo the ACA’s discrimination protections.
Last month, as the COVID-19 pandemic was at its peak in the U.S., the Department of Health and Human Services moved toward finalizing a rule to get rid of many of the nondiscrimination protections in health care and insurance coverage that are part of the Affordable Care Act .
Once this rule is issued, it will likely “erase existing regulatory protections that make explicit that discrimination based on sex includes discrimination against transgender people and discrimination based on reproductive healthcare decisions; and would dramatically expand the religious exemption by broadening the range of entities that would be exempt from the nondiscrimination provisions,”Connecting the Dots: Trump Administration Efforts to Create a License to Discriminate Across the...
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on May 6 to determine the validity of HHS’ position that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act allows the department to grant broad religious exemptions from the ACA birth control benefit. If the HHS position is upheld, “this ruling would extend an absolute right to religious and moral refusals for both individual providers and institutions.
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