What Supreme Court? Trump's HHS pushes LGBT health rollback

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

What Supreme Court? Trump’s HHS pushes LGBT health rollback

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
June 19, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration Friday moved forward with a rule that rolls back health care protections for transgender people, even as the Supreme Court barred sex discrimination against LGBT individuals on the job.

The rule from the Department of Health and Human Services was published in the Federal Register, the official record of the executive branch, with an effective date of Aug. 18. That will set off a barrage of lawsuits from gay rights and women’s groups. It also signals to religious and social conservatives in President Donald Trump’s political base that the administration remains committed to their causes as the president pursues his reelection.

The Trump administration rule would overturn Obama-era sex discrimination protections for transgender people in health care.

Strikingly similar to the underlying issues in the job discrimination case before the Supreme Court, the Trump health care rule rests on the idea that sex is determined by biology. The Obama version relied on a broader understanding shaped by a person’s inner sense of being male, female, neither, or a combination.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/7a593ffeb0101f3d13a64bb7c85def03

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1. Nondiscrimination in Health and Health Education Programs or Activities, Delegation of Authority

Nondiscrimination in Health and Health Education Programs or Activities, Delegation of Authority

AGENCY:
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS); Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION:
Final rule.

SUMMARY:
The Department of Health and Human Services (“the Department” or “HHS”) is committed to ensuring the civil rights of all individuals who access or seek to access health programs or activities of covered entities under Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). After considering public comments, in this final rule, the Department revises its Section 1557 regulations, Title IX regulations, and specific regulations of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) as proposed, with minor and primarily technical corrections. This will better comply with the mandates of Congress, address legal concerns, relieve billions of dollars in undue regulatory burdens, further substantive compliance, reduce confusion, and clarify the scope of Section 1557 in keeping with pre-existing civil rights statutes and regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, and disability.

DATES:
This rule is effective August 18, 2020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Luben Montoya, Supervisory Civil Rights Analyst, HHS Office for Civil Rights, at [phone] or [phone] (TDD).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Table of Contents
I. Executive Summary

A. Purpose

B. Summary of Major Provisions

(1) Changes to the Section 1557 Regulation

a. Elimination of Overbroad Provisions Related to Sex and Gender Identity

b. Clarification of Scope of Covered Entities

c. Elimination of Unnecessary or Duplicative Language on Civil Rights Enforcement

d. Elimination of Unnecessary Regulatory Burdens

e. Other Clarifications and Minor Modifications

(2) Related and Conforming Amendments to Other Regulations

a. Title IX

b. CMS

C. Summary of the Costs and Benefits of the Major Provisions

II. Background

III. Response to Public Comments on the Proposed Rule

A. General Comments

B. Section 1557 Regulation, Subpart A: General Requirements and Prohibitions

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The .pdf:

Nondiscrimination in Health and Health Education Programs or Activities, Delegation of Authority

[soothsayer]

2. WTF

Maddening

[mucifer]

3. trying to prove something to the deplorables

[Odoreida]

4. And the slick bastards spin it as protecting civil rights. n/t

[yankee87]

5. Hatred

The entire Rethuglican Party runs on nothing but hatred. All they do is go after the least among us. Please to all VOTE like your lives depend on it, because it does.