The changes open the door to discrimination based on non-protected characteristics, allowing healthcare professionals to refuse treatment based on personal beliefs and political affiliations.
Senate Democrats and the Biden administration abandoned plans to cap drug prices based on payments in other wealthy nations during negotiations to empower Medicare's negotiation capabilities.
"The order declared that 'influential institutions of American society' are using 'dangerous, demeaning and immoral race- and sex-based preferences under the guise of so-called 'diversity, equity and inclusion.'"