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February 18, 2020
Comments on HHS Proposed Rule on Religiously-Affiliated Providers
Wayne Turner Comments
HHS is attempting to roll back important protections for individuals seeking services from religiously-affiliated providers in a rulemaking it calls “Ensuring Equal Treatment of Faith-Based Providers.” The proposed rule would encourage religiously-affiliated providers to refuse to employ non-adherents and require that all employees and applicants for employment conform to…
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July 19, 2019
Webinar: Final Conscience Regulation – Does the New HHS Rule Promote Injustice?
Susan Berke Fogel Webinar
On May 2, 2019, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the final version of its conscience rule. This updated rule purports to authorize individual health care workers and institutions to refuse to provide certain services by citing a religious or conscientious objection. Such leeway may have…
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June 4, 2019
Protections for LGBTQ People with Behavioral Health Needs
Abigail Coursolle Issue Brief
Despite progress in breaking down discrimination against LGBTQ people seeking access to quality health care, the current administration and conservative led states are working to rollback those protections as discrimination against LGBTQ individuals in need of behavioral health care goes unabated. National Health Law Program Senior Attorney Abigail Coursolle…
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June 4, 2019
Q&A: Proposed Rollback of Nondiscrimination Protections Under the ACA’s Section 1557
Wayne Turner and Candace Gibson Q&A
In courts and through regulatory action, the administration is vigorously working to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA). On May 24, 2019, the administration released a proposed regulation that would undermine or eliminate key protections of the ACA’s nondiscrimination provision, Section 1557, from individuals who have experienced discrimination in…
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April 8, 2019
How Medicaid Work Requirements Harm Women, LGBTQ People
Priscilla Huang and Candace Gibson Health Equity, Homepage, SRH Health Equity
Health care advocates celebrated when a federal judge recently blocked Medicaid waiver projects in Kentucky and Arkansas that condition Medicaid coverage on mandatory work requirements and other cuts to coverage. The Trump administration approved (and encouraged) states to impose such requirements in a backdoor effort to undermine Medicaid and…
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January 2, 2019
The Ethical & Religious Directives: What the 2018 Update Means for Catholic Hospital Mergers
Hayley Penan and Amy Chen Fact Sheet
The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs) are directives promulgated by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to govern Catholic health facilities. The ERDs present “a theological basis for the Catholic health care ministry” and govern the way health care is delivered in Catholic…
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Comments on HHS Proposed Rule on Religiously-Affiliated Providers

Webinar: Final Conscience Regulation – Does the New HHS Rule Promote Injustice?

Protections for LGBTQ People with Behavioral Health Needs

Q&A: Proposed Rollback of Nondiscrimination Protections Under the ACA’s Section 1557

How Medicaid Work Requirements Harm Women, LGBTQ People

The Ethical & Religious Directives: What the 2018 Update Means for Catholic Hospital Mergers