Posted on 06/13/2020 6:12:45 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
The Trump administration on Friday formally rolled back an Obama-era policy that protected LGBTQ patients from discrimination and required robust language translation services, unnerving health experts who worry vulnerable populations will face further risks during the Covid-19 pandemic....
The new Trump administration rules reverse an Obama policy that banned health care providers from discriminating against transgender patients and women seeking abortions. The Obama administration had issued the first-time protections for LGBTQ patients under a nondiscrimination clause in the Affordable Care Act, citing concerns from advocates these patients had a harder time accessing necessary care....
The new rules "will eliminate mass confusion that was unleashed by the Obama-era decision to redefine sex to cover a wide array of gender identities," said Severino, who created a division within his office focused on religious freedom protections. He said the previous rules could have forced health care providers to violate their religious or moral beliefs.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Good!
Next we need to roll back federal involvement in healthcare.
“....unnerving health experts who worry vulnerable populations...
Well, one certainly can’t challenge the contentions of unnamed “health experts”.
So the queers have their own language now?
‘Special’ treatment is NOT equal treatment.
Gotta love how they lump in transgender with LGB as if they’re a monolithic block.
He only rolled back sex change operations and hormone therapy being auto-funded by the government.
And equal opportunity doesn’t translate into equal outcomes...
... and how dare they, the letter identity crowd, reject transracials and trans-species!
Which of course translates into: “Trump hates homos and wants them to die by denying them medical care.”
Pooftglish
When am I going to get protections from Democrats?
I just read the article. And it is clear how people are brainwashed. First of all the article should be titled, Trump finalizes Saving Health Care Billions Of Dollars That Can Than Be Used To Help People Of All Races” (not “Trump finalizes rollback of LGBTQ patient protections”)
The writer of this piece uses inflammatory, deceiving statements all through it, based on his opinions, not facts. It is not until the end of the piece that one really finds out what happened and it ends up saving “the health care industry about $3 billion over five years, mostly from striking multilingual notices.”
Delete all the opinions of this writer and when read without all that garbage, any reader would have to conclude this is an intelligent, smart decision.
This is the article without all the rhetoric (unless of course I missed some.)
Wherever the opinions were left out, you will see this....
The Trump administration on Friday formally rolled back an Obama-era policy that.... required robust language translation services....
HHS officials under Trump have rejected accusations they’re eliminating patient protections, given that a federal judge in Texas threw out the Obama-era rules last year following a lawsuit from religious groups. Those rules had never taken effect because they were frozen by the same judge since late 2016, shortly after they were issued.
The new rules “will eliminate mass confusion that was unleashed by the Obama-era decision to redefine sex to cover a wide array of gender identities,” said Severino, who created a division within his office focused on religious freedom protections. He said the previous rules could have forced health care providers to violate their religious or moral beliefs.
The new Trump rules also roll back Obama-era requirements that the vast majority of health care providers post information in 15 languages and make translation services readily available. The reversal has alarmed advocates for communities of color, given how the coronavirus is disproportionately affecting minority populations, including some who may not be fluent in English.
But Severino argued that those postings had created burdens for health care providers and were often unnecessary. He said the rule would save the health care industry about $3 billion over five years, mostly from striking multilingual notices....
Good. They already hate him. They will just hate him a little more, and we will like him a lot more.
There is a long list of area that the Federal government needs to be removed from.
The new rules do not eliminate protections against sex discrimination in health care. So despite the headline the sexual orientation of the patient is not a factor. Instead it ended the equating of gender identity with biological sex.
One thing this mean is that a doctor would not be forced to prescribe hormones to a person seeking a sex change. It also means a OBGYN would not have to treat a transgender who was biologically male but identified as female. (Yeah there was a case).
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