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New report analyzes how the administration is undermining the Affordable Care Act using web censorship

by Rachel Bergman May 15, 2019 4:50 am

The federal government considers public federal agency websites to be the primary way the public learns about government functions, benefits,... View Article

HHS Office for Civil Rights overhauled its mission and vision statements on its website

by Rachel Bergman

policy

May 1, 2019 10:45 am

A side-by-side comparison of a portion of the March 6, 2019 and April 30, 2019 versions of OCR’s “OCR Leadership”... View Article

A new way to track Web censorship under Trump: Gov404

by Toly Rinberg, Andrew Bergman, Rachel Bergman and Sarah John Mar 12, 2019 4:04 pm

The Web Integrity Project is launching Gov404, a tracker that aggregates and verifies the most significant cases of information removals from federal websites.

HHS Office of Population Affairs removed Affordable Care Act content from Title X website

by Cate Pinto and Rachel Bergman Feb 7, 2019 5:00 am

Without notice to the public, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Population Affairs (OPA) removed a... View Article

In overhaul of HealthCare.gov webpage, information about ways to apply is gone

by Rachel Bergman Dec 11, 2018 2:53 pm

Links on the ACA enrollment page now direct to third-party sites, including a for-profit assistance system

CMS removes PDF used to train assisters in providing healthcare outreach to Latino communities

by Rachel Bergman Dec 6, 2018 5:00 am

The training resource, which had still-accurate information, was taken down from the CMS.gov Health Insurance Marketplace website without notice

HHS dropped “gender” from civil rights webpages in early 2018

by Rachel Bergman and Andrew Bergman Oct 23, 2018 1:00 am

Recent reporting that HHS memo is seeking to legally redefine gender provides insight into the shift in terminology.

The Web Integrity Project receives a generous boost in funding

by John Wonderlich, Toly Rinberg, Rachel Bergman and Andrew Bergman Oct 10, 2018 2:49 pm

A contribution from Mike Klein, Sunlight Foundation’s Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board, enables the expansion of WIP’s work monitoring and reporting on federal website changes.

HHS removes sex discrimination prohibition language from civil rights office website

by Rachel Bergman and Jon Campbell Jul 19, 2018 5:00 am

Foreshadowing a possible shift in anti-discrimination policy, still-accurate content about sex discrimination was removed by the Office for Civil Rights.

14-Page Affordable Care Act website removed from Medicaid.gov

by Rachel Bergman Jul 12, 2018 5:00 am

For the nearly 73.8 million Americans enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and others newly eligible... View Article