"The first would prohibit doctors and hospitals from receiving federal Medicaid reimbursement for medical care provided to transgender patients younger than age 18. The second would block all Medicaid and Medicare funding for any services at hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care. Medicaid provides health care coverage to low-income children and adults in the U.S. Medicare is the health program for Americans over 65 and disabled people."
"Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be announcing the measures in a press conference at 11 a.m. at the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Mehmet Oz, who leads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Dr. Marty Makary, who leads the Food and Drug Administration, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who leads the National Institutes of Health, will all be at the press conference."
"The pivot to the topic of transgender minors comes one day after Republicans in the House of Representatives passed a package of health care bills that do not extend subsidies for people who buy health insurance in Affordable Care Act plans. The legislative package included a bill, introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., that makes it a crime to provide gender-affirming care to transgender minors, punishable by a fine or prison time of up to 10 years."
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will announce measures at an HHS press conference attended by the leaders of CMS, FDA, and NIH. Two proposed hospital rules would bar federal Medicaid reimbursements for medical care to transgender patients under 18 and would block all Medicaid and Medicare funding for hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care. Medicaid covers low-income children and adults; Medicare covers Americans over 65 and disabled people. Virtually every hospital accepts Medicare, so the rule would have wide-ranging effects. The announcements follow House Republican legislation that includes a bill criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors with fines or prison up to 10 years.
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