The Obama administration announced a new rule barring discrimination in health care based on a number of different personal characteristics.
According to a statement from the Department of Health and Human Services, the new rule prohibits discrimination in health care based on “race, color, national origin, age, disability and sex” as well as pregnancy and gender identity.
The rule is the finalized version of a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that barred discrimination in health care based on sex. PPACA supporters touted that provision during the debate over the landmark health law in 2010 as a way to finally prohibit insurers from charging women more for coverage than men.
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