In the last two years, between January 2017 and January 2019, the Office of Minority Health (OMH), an agency within... View Article
Continue readingExplained: The federal government’s responsibilities to provide online content in non-English languages
A portion of the “Multilingual Resources Page” on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website as of February 14,... View Article
Continue readingHHS Office of Population Affairs removed Affordable Care Act content from Title X website
Without notice to the public, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Population Affairs (OPA) removed a... View Article
Continue readingCMS de-emphasizes HealthCare.gov and steers consumers towards brokers and agents for help finding insurance plans
Consumer experience highlights potential risks of relying on agents and brokers, as the Trump administration loosens rules on health plans that do not comply with the Affordable Care Act
Continue readingResearchers try to cope without HHS public medical guideline database five months after its takedown
A nonprofit has launched a hopeful replacement as HHS agency pays for a study on how to disseminate guidelines in the future
Continue readingIn overhaul of HealthCare.gov webpage, information about ways to apply is gone
Links on the ACA enrollment page now direct to third-party sites, including a for-profit assistance system
Continue readingCMS removes PDF used to train assisters in providing healthcare outreach to Latino communities
The training resource, which had still-accurate information, was taken down from the CMS.gov Health Insurance Marketplace website without notice
Continue readingThe Web Integrity Project welcomes Sarah John as its Director of Research
We’re thrilled to announce that Sarah John is joining the Web Integrity Project as its new Director of Research! Sarah brings to WIP several years of research management experience at non-profits, including Legal Services Corporation and FairVote.
Continue readingExplained: Scheduled downtime of Healthcare.gov during open enrollment
Maintenance downtimes warrant scrutiny, but experts say they’re probably reasonable and necessary.
Continue readingHHS dropped “gender” from civil rights webpages in early 2018
Recent reporting that HHS memo is seeking to legally redefine gender provides insight into the shift in terminology.
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