Affirming care
Amy Barrier Prism Health North Texas’ trans clinic offers healthcare in a safe environment Tammye Nash | Managing Editornash@dallasvoice.com The Affordable Care Act, commonly known as “Obamacare,” includes a provision — Section 1557 — that “prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability in certain health programs or activities.” According to Sara Rosenbaum, the Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy and founding chair of the Department of Health Policy at George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Service, when issued in May 2016 under the administration of President Obama, Section 1557 did “what virtually no civil rights law has done before: It extend[ed]
