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The federal health department made a significant announcement this week \u2014 and it\u2019s getting attention from both sides of the aisle.\n<\/p>\n
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The Department of Health and Human Services says it will no longer push doctors, hospitals, and universities to meet race-based targets. Instead, it will enforce civil rights law the same way for every individual American, regardless of race.\n<\/p>\n
From the Daily Signal:\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHHS will not pressure doctors, hospitals, universities, or state agencies to sort people by race to satisfy a statistic,\u201d said Paula Stannard, the office\u2019s director. \u201cThis rule restores common sense and true equality to Title VI enforcement.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
The rule also aligns with President Trump\u2019s Executive Order \u201cRestoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy,\u201d signed in April 2025, which eliminated disparate impact as a standalone basis for federal enforcement action.\n<\/p>\n
The HHS Office for Civil Rights says it will continue to consider statistical disparities, along with other evidence, to evaluate whether intentional discrimination occurred in health care.<\/p>\n
Under the previous framework, the government could target an organization for discrimination even without a specific complaint \u2014 simply because its outcomes showed statistical differences between racial groups. This is called \u201cdisparate impact.\u201d The new rule eliminates that as a standalone basis for enforcement.\n<\/p>\n
The agency was clear: it is not walking away from civil rights enforcement. It will still investigate complaints, conduct compliance reviews, and take action against intentional discrimination based on race, color, and national origin.\n<\/p>\n
Every person is made in the image of God \u2014 not as a data point or a demographic category, but as an individual of irreplaceable worth. Christians can hold two things at once: a deep commitment to fighting real racial injustice, and a belief that true equality means one standard applied to every person.\n<\/p>\n
Pray for wisdom for those in authority \u2014 and for every patient, in every hospital, to be treated with dignity and fairness.\n<\/p>\n
(Excerpt from the Daily Signal. Photo Credit: Department of Health and Human Services \u2013 https:\/\/x.com\/SecKennedy\/status\/2060749323931988025, Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=193228598)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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