New guidance from the Biden administration to protect LGBT people from discrimination in health care is likely to collide with the strongly held religious beliefs of some doctors and the federal law in place to protect them.
Under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, doctors and insurers that receive federal funding are prohibited from denying a person care or health coverage based on their race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability.
In announcing the new administration will be interpreting the word “sex” in Obamacare’s anti-discrimination rules to include sexual orientation and gender identity, the Department of Health and ...
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