Catholic Healthcare Leader Warns of Transgender Mandate in Change to Obamacare Rule
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Chris Faddis, president of Solidarity HealthShare, is sounding the alarm over a new Biden administration change to the Affordable Care Act that he says denies religious freedom rights of Catholic and Christian health providers who object to sex change surgeries.
The administration’s new rule amends the nondiscrimination clause in Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (also known as the ACA or Obamacare), by removing the word “sex” and replacing it with the phrase “sex (including discrimination on the basis of sex characteristics, including intersex traits; pregnancy or related conditions; sexual orientation; gender identity; and sex stereotypes).”
This change means that any insurer or physician receiving federal financial assistance must cover or provide sex reassignment surgeries and therapies on the grounds that refusal to do so would constitute discrimination based on sex.
This reverses changes to ACA made under the Trump administration that excluded such procedures from mandated coverage.
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