Lisa Kalayji<p>Public comment is open on a proposed US federal policy change that would strip trans people on ACA (health insurance exchange) plans of their gender-affirming care and exclude DACA recipients (undocumented immigrants who have been in the US since they were kids and who have government permission to continue living and working here) from getting insurance at all. </p><p>It also shortens the open enrollment period, which is currently only 2.5 frantic months, to just a month and a half, which will make it impossible for many people to get insurance, and would almost certainly be compounded by a mass exodus of insurance brokers from their jobs (they already work 12 hour days during open enrollment). And that's not even everything that's in here.</p><p><a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/19/2025-04083/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-marketplace-integrity-and-affordability" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">federalregister.gov/documents/</span><span class="invisible">2025/03/19/2025-04083/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-marketplace-integrity-and-affordability</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/HealthInsurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInsurance</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ACA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACA</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TransHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransHealth</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TransRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRights</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ImmigrantRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImmigrantRights</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a></p>