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According to a Texas federal judge Reed O’Connor, insuring against HIV transmission violates the religious freedom of businesses that object to LGBTQ+ people, meaning insurance companies cannot be forced to cover the medicines. As a result of his ruling, a host of preventative services required to be covered by insurance providers under the Affordable Care Act are in doubt. Photo: Screen grab from Administrative Office of the United States Courts’ video.

A federal judge from Texas, Judge Reed O’Connor has made a shocking ruling, stating that the inclusion of the HIV treatment was a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.This comes after companies Braidwood Management and Kelley Orthodontics brought the case to the US District Court. The companies were represented by Johnathan Mitchell, a man infamously known for his anti-abortion behaviour.The companies filed the lawsuit, stating that PrEP’s coverage in the Affordable Care Healthcare Act (ACA) forced religious companies with anti-LGBTQ+ to finance and help “homosexual behaviour.”Their argument was that including the PrEP treatment “forces religious employers to provide coverage for drugs that facilitate and encourage homosexual behaviour… prostitution, sexual promiscuity, and intravenous drug use.”With Judge O’Connor’s ruling, neither of the companies is required to cover PrEP costs for their employers.

Reuters.In her lawsuit, Goidel claims she and her spouse were forced to spend nearly $45,000 for fertility treatments as a result of the policy’s additional burden placed on same-sex couples, as compared to opposite-sex couples. That included the cost of four unsuccessful IUI cycles, and one unsuccessful IVF cycle, before becoming pregnant through a fifth IUI cycle — all of which Aetna refused to cover.Goidel says she chose IUI to get pregnant despite previous failures, in part, because of the higher cost of IVF.“Ms.

filed suit against the state in 2019, accusing the North Carolina State Health Plan of discriminating against them or their children.Attorneys for the state had argued that the state could not be sued under a legal doctrine known as “sovereign immunity,” but last year, a federal judge ruled that the state could be sued for violating nondiscrimination provisions contained in Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, on the grounds that it had waived its sovereign immunity and agreed to abide by the ACA’s conditions by accepting federal funds. The state appealed the case to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled to uphold the lower court’s decision on Wednesday.

PrEP.A once-daily pill, PrEP uses antiretroviral treatments for HIV to prevent an HIV-negative person from contracting the virus. It reduces the risk of transmission during sex by around 99%, according to the CDC.The Department of Labor order means that insured individuals accessing the drug — sold under the brand names Truvada and Descovy — will face no copays, deductibles, or additional costs associated with PrEP.That includes the lab tests and quarterly clinic visits necessary in order to “monitor patients taking the medication to ensure its safe, ongoing use,” per the guidance.Insurers have 60 days to classify PrEP as a zero-cost preventative drug.

personal beliefs on homosexuality or gender.In a statement, officials with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will interpret and enforce prohibitions on sex-based discrimination contained in Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in a way that would protect members of the LGBTQ community who are denied health care services or insurance coverage for medically necessary care.

homophobic robotext referring to him as “a gay Democrat” to delegates ahead of the Virginia GOP’s nominating convention on Saturday, May 8.The lawsuit, filed by Del.

Samples prepare to get tested for COVID-19. Photo: Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

lawsuit, both women claim they’ve experience mistreatment, misgendering, and even been denied adequate care on multiple occasions when they interacted with health care workers, which has led them in the past to avoid seeking care except in emergency situations. This has exacerbated their pre-existing conditions.As a result of the Trump administration’s rule, both women say they fear that they will be denied care altogether or subjected to substandard medical care should they seek treatment.

rule that eliminates Obama-era transgender protections from the Affordable Care Act.The lawsuit, filed by Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, the National Women’s Law Center, Transgender Law Center, the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School, and the law firm Hogan Lovells on behalf of the plaintiffs, alleges that the new rule violated the Administrative Procedures Act because it is contrary to law, as well as arbitrary and capricious.The rule itself revises Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act to restrict the definition of discrimination “on the basis of sex,” to instances where a person is denied health care or insurance coverage that would otherwise be granted to others because of their assigned sex

Several advocacy groups on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration over its decision to remove transgender protections from the Affordable Care Act.

religious grounds to providing this insurance so long as they gave notice of their objection so employees could apply for supplemental insurance to cover contraception and any other medication or procedures to which the employer might object. But the Trump administration changed the rules, allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on personal or moral objections, and to do so without notifying their employees.Pennsylvania and New Jersey sued to block the Trump administration’s rules from taking effect, arguing that they were inconsistent with the Affordable Care Act and were adopted without notifying the public or allowing them to comment on the proposed changes.