ANALYSIS: Kacsmaryk LGBT Case Lurks With Health Bias Rule on Way

The HHS isn’t rushing its latest effort to bar LGBTQ discrimination in health care.

Having more than 70,000 comments to weed through doesn’t help as the agency works to finalize a long-awaited regulation that was proposed last summer. But a recent court ruling from Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk could also be part of the reason: The agency might need time to make sure its plan is as legally solid as possible.

Kacsmaryk, a Trump-appointed judge in the Northern District of Texas, has become a magnet for conservative lawyers in search of favorable outcomes. He ordered a block on a widely-used ...