Updates | The Week of May 29, 2017
The Trump administration is considering broad exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate (Vox).
- The revision could leave hundreds of thousands of women without birth control coverage (NYT).
- The draft rule is procedurally flawed—it breaks with prior law, but has not gone through notice and comment procedures, notes Nick Bagley at Take Care.
- The White House has acted to roll back the birth-control mandate for religious employers (NYT).
On this week’s Versus Trump podcast episode, Easha Anand and Jason Harrow dive into the House v. Price litigation, which addresses appropriation of payments to insurers under the Affordable Care Act (Take Care).
The Trump administration is rolling back nutritional standards for school lunches, but the focus of food in schools should be on access for all, not "choices" for those who can already afford healthy food, argues Jazmine Walker (Rewire).