Category: Affordable Care Act

Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities

Local health departments should be mindful of new rules adopted by the federal Health and Human Services Agency (HHS) through Section 1557 of the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA), which took effect in October of this year. The new rule requires health care programs or activities that receive federal funding incorporate nondiscrimination provisions by posting…

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Plans to Repeal the ACA

Since the election, there has been much uncertainty surrounding the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) under President-Elect Trump’s Administration and with a Republican-controlled Congress. President-Elect Trump has stated that on day one, the Trump Administration would ask Congress to immediately deliver a full repeal of the ACA. Additionally, both Senate and House Republicans…

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