Dr. David A. Rosman, president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, called “cruel" the reversal by the Trump Administration of a 2016 regulation under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that prohibited “various forms of discrimination by health care providers against LGBTQ patients, women, and non-English speaking patients.”
The change is seen in step with the administration’s goal of re-defining “sex discrimination” narrowly, meaning on the basis of being male or female and not on the basis of gender identity or orientation.
“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services final rule endorses discrimination by removing a prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, and allowing providers to deny care if performing a procedure violates the provider’s moral or religious beliefs,” said Rosman in a released statement.
“Additionally, the administration strikes provisions to ensure patients’ language access, furthering its discriminatory tendencies. Together, these measures will seriously harm LGBTQ patients, women seeking abortions and other reproductive health care, and non-English speaking patients, making it harder for many individuals seek care.”
He added, "The elimination of nondiscrimination protections in health care is not only abhorrent, but it perpetuates stigma and will have serious consequences to the physical and mental health of untold members of the LGBTQ community, women and non-English speaking patients, erecting barriers to comprehensive, non-discriminatory health care premised on intolerance and bias, which MMS vehemently denounces."
“The stress and fear felt by our patients who are targeted by this bigoted and hateful line of thinking is demoralizing and dangerous," Rosman said.
“The Massachusetts Medical Society holds strong our policy that health care is a basic human right and we remain committed to working for the best possible health care for every patient, regardless of racial identification, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious affiliation, disability, immigration status, or economic status.”
On its site, Health and Human Services describes the change as one that is cost-saving and that “eliminates certain provisions of the 2016 Rule that exceeded the scope of the authority delegated by Congress in Section 1557. HHS will enforce Section 1557 by returning to the government’s interpretation of sex discrimination according to the plain meaning of the word “sex” as male or female and as determined by biology.”
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