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White House Blocks Discrimination Against LGBTQ Patients By Alicia Ault
May 11, 2021 The Biden administration is reversing a Trump-era policy that allowed health care providers to refuse to treat lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) patients.
The Department of Health and Human Services gave notice Monday that it interprets the Affordable Care Act which bars discrimination on the basis of sex to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The department said its position is consistent with a June Supreme Court ruling in
Bostock v. Clayton County, GA. The court ruled that the Civil Rights Act s prohibition of employment discrimination on the basis of sex includes sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Public health and social justice organizations are calling for pharmacists to be allowed to administer all CDC recommended vaccines.
The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, NAACP New York State Conference, New York State Association of County Health Organizations, New York Public Health Association and more than 20 other groups are urging lawmakers in Albany to pass legislation allowing pharmacists to administer all vaccines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to anyone over the age of 18. Currently, state law allows for the administration of some vaccines, but not others.
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network senior New York government relations director Julie Hart:
Kansas lawmakers on Friday passed out Senate Bill 29, which could potentially expand usage of short-term health insurance plans. Short-term limited duration insurance policies are intended as stop-gap measures, intended to provide low-cost insurance for folks in between jobs or nearing retirement. Due to this nature, short-term plans also provide less coverage than normal health insurance.
Currently in Kansas, such plans can only last either six or 12 months with one renewal allowed.
In 2017, former President Donald Trump issued rules letting stop-gap insurance go up to three years, and the Senate bill would take advantage of this expanded timeframe for short-term plans.