During this time of the plague to do this is unconscionable to cut health care for LGBTQ people.
To quote Edward R. Murrow, “Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?”
There is another aspect to this.
Under the law the public comments must be made public, but as far as I can tell they have not made the numbers of comments or any data about the comments, or made any of the comments public. The only information that I could find was that the number of public comments.
The Trump administration has a history of ignoring laws he doesn’t like, and the Republican Senate backs him up in disregarding the law.
To quote Edward R. Murrow, “Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?”
Trump team moves to scrap protections for LGBTQ patientsIn the middle of this pandemic the Trump administration wants to kill us off.
The health department's top civil rights official also defended the administration's approach to vulnerable populations.
Politico
By Dan Diamond
April 24, 2020
The Trump administration is moving to scrap an Obama-era policy that protected LGBTQ patients from discrimination, alarming health experts who warn that the regulatory rollback could harm vulnerable people during a pandemic.
The health department is close to finalizing its long-developing rewrite of Obamacare’s Section 1557 provision, which barred health care discrimination based on sex and gender identity. The administration’s final rule on Thursday was circulated at the Justice Department, a step toward publicly releasing the regulation in the coming days, said two people with knowledge of the pending rule. The White House on Friday morning also updated a regulatory dashboard to indicate that the rule was under review. Advocates fear that it would allow hospitals and health workers to more easily discriminate against patients based on their gender or sexual orientation.
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"If the final rule is anything like the proposed rule, HHS is adopting changes that would be harmful in the best of times but that are especially cruel in the midst of a global pandemic that is disproportionately affecting vulnerable communities and exacerbating disparities,” said Katie Keith, a lawyer and Georgetown professor who’s tracked the rule.
There is another aspect to this.
Under the law the public comments must be made public, but as far as I can tell they have not made the numbers of comments or any data about the comments, or made any of the comments public. The only information that I could find was that the number of public comments.
The Trump administration has a history of ignoring laws he doesn’t like, and the Republican Senate backs him up in disregarding the law.
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