Healthcare DIVE January 10, 2024
The department framed the rule as a “balance” that safeguards providers’ right to religious freedom and patients’ access to care.
Dive Brief:
- The HHS Office of Civil Rights has again updated guidance on providers’ conscience rights. The latest iteration, announced on Tuesday, aims to strike a balance between honoring providers’ religious and moral beliefs and ensuring access to healthcare, according to the agency.
- President George W. Bush created conscience rules in 2008, which codify the rights of healthcare workers to refuse to perform medical services that conflict with their religious or moral beliefs. Since then, subsequent administrations have rewritten the rules, with Democrats limiting the scope and Republicans expanding conscience protections.
- The most recent revision largely undoes a...
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