Brookings | Democracy Fund | Former Biden White House | Justice Department under Obama | Civil Rights Attorney
HHS's proposed 504 regulations are a vital update to combat discrimination against people with disabilities in health care, child welfare programs, and website and app design. These enforceable standards will result in more accessible medical devices like exam tables and mammograms. They will help stamp out stereotyping in medical care and ensure people with disabilities receive services in the community rather than unnecessarily being placed in institutionalized settings. And they will prohibit the discriminatory use of value assessment methods -- valuing the life of a person with a disability less than the life of a person without a disability -- when using cost-effectiveness to determine if a given treatment will be covered. These are major steps forward.
General Counsel at Department of Health and Human Services; on leave as Frank G. Millard Professor of Law and Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy, University of Michigan
Today Secretary Becerra announced new proposed regulations to implement Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. This is the most comprehensive update since then-Secretary Califano signed the first Section 504 regulations in 1977. It's a major achievement for disability rights.
This is great!
Attorney/Consultant at William D. Goren J.D. LL.M. LLC
11moBlog entry on this posted today. https://www.understandingtheada.com/blog/2023/09/18/hhs-updated-%c2%a7504-proposed-regulations/