{"id":2342,"date":"2016-03-22T07:22:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T11:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2016-03-22T10:23:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T14:23:06","slug":"acas-nondiscrimination-mandate-generates-backlash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2342","title":{"rendered":"ACA&#8217;s Nondiscrimination Mandate Generates Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s looking more and more like the courts will be required to settle the gradually expanding fight between insurers and civil rights activists on the issue of coverage for transgender transitioning and related issues. Private employers operating their own health insurance plans are at the center of the argument seeking\u00a0protection from what they consider to be the Affordable Care Act&#8217;s regulatory &#8220;overreach,&#8221; and it looks like there will be some movement toward resolution as the Obama administration&#8217;s final year winds down.\u00a0In an article posted by Associated Press writer Ricardo Alonzo-Zaldivar on\u00a0www.ledger-enquirer.com, the perspectives of both sides of the issue are reviewed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledger-enquirer.com\/news\/article67468537.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid\u00a0\u00a0on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s looking more and more like the courts will be required to settle the gradually expanding fight between insurers and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}