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Sources say that a climate of fear has spread throughout the agency as the Trump administration takes a hatchet to its core functions.

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“Withholding the availability of services from transgender individuals based on their gender identity or their diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while offering such services to cisgender individuals, is discrimination under New York law."

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I do not want to live in a world where the rich are dragged from their limos and beaten. But I do think that world is a lot more likely to be realized because of the modus operandi of UHC and its cohort.

Medicare Advantage – the commercial alternative to traditional Medicare – is drawing down federal health care funds, costing taxpayers an extra 22% per enrollee to the tune of US$83 billion a year.

Insurers are dropping plans and slashing benefits.