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Cutting employee hours, and limiting or pulling benefits didn't start with the ACA or Obama care. Millions of workers have had the same thing happen way back to the mid 60's that I know of! But if you want to blame the ACA, so be it!

Phil

Kind of like those born after oh, around the early 70's, don't know [bleep] about what it was like before the creation of OSHA, MSHA, the EPA, and the many other employee and safety organizations... or care, but with Trump and the far right they just damn well may find out!

Phil

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times - Thursday, August 25, 2016

Religious health care providers and five states are suing the federal government over a regulation that they say would require doctors to perform sex-reassignment procedures, even if doing so would run contrary to their medical judgment and ethical beliefs.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday at a federal court in Texas, takes issue with a nondiscrimination mandate issued in May by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Lori Windham, senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents the coalition, said the mandate would force doctors to perform sex-reassignment procedures on children.

It reaches every doctor, hospital and insurer that receives federal Medicare and Medicaid dollars, Ms. Windham said — “virtually every doctor in the United States.”

Doctors who refuse to perform the procedures would be subject to private litigation and compensatory damages, she said, and hospitals that fail to adhere to the mandate risk losing federal Medicaid and Medicare funding.

The mandate relies upon a prohibition on sex discrimination in Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which HHS has interpreted as barring discrimination on the basis of gender identity.

That reading is consistent with other Obama administration interpretations of federal law, including the Department of Education’s insistence that Title IX’s prohibition on sex discrimination in education also applies to gender identity.

The lawsuit alleges that HHS overstepped its authority and misinterpreted Obamacare’s anti-discrimination provision.

“Government bureaucrats do not have the ability to go in and take away doctors’ ability to use their best medical judgment,” Ms. Windham said. “HHS has gone beyond its authority to intrude on the rights of doctors to counsel and treat their patients.”

The lawsuit was filed in the same federal court that on Sunday blocked the Obama administration’s order compelling public schools to regulate bathrooms, locker rooms and shower facilities on the basis of gender identity, rather than biological sex.

Siding with 14 states that sued the federal government over the order, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor said the Obama administration did not follow rule-making procedures outlined in the Administrative Procedure Act, including notice and comment.

Ms. Windham said she was “encouraged” by that outcome.

“We think it illustrates that HHS overstepped its bounds by trying to redefine the terms of the statute,” she said.

The Leadership Conference, a pro-LGBT organization, said the timing and location of the lawsuit “comes as no surprise.”

“Shopping around for right-wing judges willing to block the enforcement of our nation’s civil rights laws is an abuse of the judicial system,” Nancy Zirkin, executive vice president of the Leadership Conference, said in a statement.

Ms. Zirkin said the mandate ensures that transgender people are treated with “dignity, respect, and freedom from discrimination” when receiving health care.

Ms. Windham said the mandate is “blatantly hypocritical,” pointing out that HHS medical experts have long prevented Medicare and Medicaid funds from covering sex-transition procedures due to dubious evidence about the their effectiveness and the fluidity of gender identity in children.

“So they do not require Medicare and Medicaid to cover these procedures; they look at it on a case-by-case basis,” she said. “Yet the political appointees at HHS are saying that doctors cannot look at it on a case-by-case basis.”

Texas, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Kansas have joined in the suit, and Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, a Republican, is joining the suit on behalf of his state.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit include the Franciscan Alliance, which operates 14 hospitals in Indiana and Illinois, and the Christian Medical Association, a national network of medical professionals.

Religious groups unsuccessfully lobbied for an exception to the mandate before it was implemented. The lawsuit argues the edict infringes upon the rights of religious medical professionals.

“Doctors and health care providers like Franciscan Alliance have joined this profession in order to serve people,” Ms. Windham said. “They’re inspired by their faith, and they should not be forced to provide transition procedures, especially for children, that go against their medical judgment.”

But one thing is for sure and it is now being recognized that with Trumps plan, the estimated 24,000,000 loosing health care won't just be the low income, retired, and elderly, but will also include an estimated 7,000,000 loosing health coverage from companies just plain not wanting to offer it any longer leaving it up to the individual to find his/or her own health coverage...





Phil

Paid for my health insurance out of my pocket for 36 years. Its not the end of the world.

AMEN AND AMEN DUTCH !! they should have the costs in line before they ever started on insurance!!

Phil,how old are you ? I'm 73. I'm a retired union dry wall taper.
I fell for the left's "slanted" news when Ronald Regan ran for president against Jimmy Carter. Then I saw what Regan accomplished. Regonomics resulted in two things. Reduce taxes for us, and US bussinesses. Yet, it resulted in more actual tax money being collected..... I was employed more than I had for the Carter years, much more. And, to this day, the left has not given Regan credit for bringing down the old Soviet Union.
The hospitals are closing and have been for years. I live within blocks of the last independantly owned and operated hospital left in Kaifornia. Why ? Because the state and federal governments laid too many requirements on them to give care to thoe who couldn't pay. That was the left's doing, particularly here.
Insurance rates went up ? Same reason.
Union jobs are harder and harder to find ? As a member of the building trades, do you know what has inhibited building in Ka. ? The left's environmental rules and laws. We have one of the highest proverty rates in the country. Why ? A big part is the high cost of housing, far higher than anywhere else in the country.
I haven't been hurt much by ObamaCare. I qualified for Medicare, and have always had Kaiser Medical Insurance since the 60's. But my girlfriend has been. She makes $15,000 a year. How ? Her drug costs have quadrupled. So have that of many of her friends and mine. Most of those hurt by Ocare are in that catagory.
Wake up and smell the coffee Phil. You've been led down the primrose path by the left's very biased news reporting.
Big things are coming with the Trump administration. Look what happend so far. And he's only been in office since 1-20-17. E

GG, you remember when your socialist buds started the mandate that hospital ERs have to treat everyone?
That was the beginning of the out of control spiral of hospital costs and hospital closings.

It accelerated after Ocare.

Hospitals treat tons of patients, often illegal aliens and some for months at a time, who will never pay one thin dime.

Your people forget they have to pay nurses, electricity, administrators, clerks, janitors, water bills, etc.

You should get your buds to become nurses, and work for free as a second job to help out your sick welfare dimocraps.

GG you're too stupid to realize employers have to reduce employees hours to dodge the health care mandates costs in order to stay in business.

Most business owners barely get by. They would prefer to be able to pay for ins coverage as it would allow them to compete for the most educated and skilled employees which only larger companies can compete for.

As smart as you are, why dont you open a roofing or concrete business or start borrowing money and opening dry cleaners? You could hire everyone full time, make a killing, open more stores and pay for everyone's health care and get rich doing it. Then you could donate to the bastids who want to tell you how to do it.