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WASHINGTON 鈥?The U.S. will protect gay and transgender people against sex discrimination in health care, the Biden administration announced Monday, reversing a Trump-era policy that sought to narrow the scope of legal rights in sensitive situations involving medical care.The action by the Department of Health and Human Services affirms that federal laws forbidding sex discrimination in health care also protect gay and transgender people. The Trump administration had defined 8220 ex to mean gender assigned at birth, thereby excluding transgender people from the law umbrella of protection.Fear of discrimination can lead individuals to forgo care, which can have serious negative health consequences, said yeezy mx HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. Everyone 鈥?including LGBTQ people 鈥?should be able to access health care, free from discrimination or interference, period.Becerra said in a statement the Biden administration policy will bring HHS into line with a landmark 6-3 Supreme Court decision last year in a workplace discrimination case, which established that federal laws against sex discrimination on the job also protect gay and transgender people. Despite that ruling, the Trump administration proceeded to try to narrow the legal protections against health care discrimination, issuing rules that narrowly defined 8220 ex as biologi dunk panda cal gender. A federal judge had blocked those rules from taking effect, although Trump administration off stanley cup i Semf A call for unity is welcome. But the messenger matters.
Sara Gideon should be very busy right now. A new governor will be sworn in Jan. 2, and Democrats have large majorities in the Maine Senate and the Main stanley cup e House, where she will be serving as speaker.One would think she would be working feverishly to prepare for the upcoming legislative session. But as we saw from her Dec. 18 BDN column, she is far more concerned with her personal political ambitions for 2020.Rather than focusing on the important issues facing our state like job creation, education, transportation, and the opioid epidemic, Gideon is echoing the fear-mongering about the Affordable Care Act and owala website taking ill-informed potshots at Sen. Susan Collins.Her column, which distorted the senators record, attacks Collins for voting to eliminate the individual mandate that was part of the ACA. The individual mandate imposed a penalty that people who could not afford to buy health insurance were forced to pay.For instance, if you were an individual making $35,000 a year and could not afford to pay for health insura yeezy nce, you were fined $695 per year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. This is the mandate that Gideon supports. More than 80 percent of the people who were forced to pay this penalty were those earning less than $50,000 per year.If Gideon looked beyond her far left-wing talking points, she might see the basic unfairness behind penalizing people who cant afford to buy insurance for not buying insurance. The Democrats in the U.S. Senate seemed to understand thi |
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