New York Attorney General Letitia James, shown earlier this year, is leading a lawsuit by multiple states and other jurisdictions against a Trump administration rule governing health-care providers, insurers and employers. The 440-page rule also grants parents rights to refuse several specific types of care for their children. The lawsuits are part of a spate of federal litigation challenging various ways the Trump administration has been rewriting health-care policies. The rule also risks “undermining longstanding efforts by those institutions to build trust with the patient communities they serve,” the suit says. Read moreSan Francisco sues Trump administration, calls conscience rule a ‘perversion’ of civil rights missionFederal judge blocks Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky and ArkansasA job-scarce town struggles with Arkansas’s first-in-nation Medicaid work rules

Source: Washington Post May 21, 2019 22:22 UTC