Two advocacy groups already plan to challenge the ruling.
that would roll back protections from discrimination for transgender patients through the Affordable Care Act, making the move amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and on the four-year anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting.... [+]
The Department of Health and Human Services wrote that the 2016 rule,"exceeded the scope of the authority delegated by Congress.”that the administration intended to go,"back to the plain meaning of those terms."
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