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“Without these people in place, it’s unlikely that a lot of these programs will be able to continue even after the government reopens," former HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary Adrian Shanker told The Advocate.
One HHS official called him a "public health martial artist."
The Department of Health and Human Services issued an ultimatum to 46 states.
The Republican-passed House bill goes beyond limiting access for Medicaid recipients.
Under the administration’s latest guidance, reporting a trans patient’s care may no longer violate HIPAA — and that’s exactly the problem, providers say.
“We have all the tools to end HIV. It just makes me sad to see a lot of this infrastructure being systematically dismantled across the country," one advisor told The Advocate.
“This is a dangerous move,” Jirair Ratevosian, an associate research scientist at Yale University, told The Advocate.
