A lawsuit over a 2020 Trump administration rule interpreting Obamacare’s anti-discrimination section as not prohibiting bias based on sexual orientation or gender identity in health-care services should be dismissed, the Department of Health and Human Services told a federal court in Massachusetts.
The case is no longer ripe, as a Biden administration rule proposed July 25 would significantly revise the earlier provision, HHS said in a brief to the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts supporting its motion to dismiss the case.
This is one of several lawsuits filed by gay and transgender advocacy groups, including the Boston ...
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