NOW is your chance to push back! The federal Dept of Health and Human Services has published proposed 504 regulations for medical treatment, use of value assessments, web and related access, medical equipment, health care programs and activities, and more. It talks about organ transplants, parents with disabilities, futile care, pregnancy and all around medical treatment. This is for folks who get funding through HHS, but that’s TONS of places.
If you couldn’t get on an exam table, never get physical exams, can’t get a mammogram or a scan because the equipment is not accessible, it’s time for you to speak up.

Comments need to be submitted by November 13, 2023.

The rules are long because they cover a lot. But don’t be intimidated because you only need to look at/and or comment on the parts you want. If they left something out you can comment on that too.

This has the potential to change all the crap you have had to put up with for decades! So don’t let this chance slip by.

For the HHS FACT SHEET on the proposed rules click here. It explains what they are about and a little background. It also has a link to where you can comment online as well as how to comment other ways.

This is the link to the proposed rules: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/09/14/2023-19149/discrimination-on-the-basis-of-disability-in-health-and-human-service-programs-or-activities