Tag
Incidents affecting the right to health, including cuts to healthcare programs, denial of medical treatment, dismantlement of public health infrastructure, and policies creating barriers to medical access.
7 incidents
Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation
CMS finalized a rule cutting off federal Medicaid and CHIP funding for gender-affirming medical care for low-income transgender minors, while allowing the same drugs and procedures for non-transgender patients. A coalition of 20 states, D.C. and Pennsylvania's governor sued to block it.
Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern
A sustained pattern of strikes on Iranian hospitals, ambulances, and medical infrastructure has killed healthcare workers and forced the evacuation of six hospitals. The WHO verified 18 attacks on health sites through mid-March 2026, documenting systematic damage to protected medical facilities including Gandhi Hospital and Iranian Red Crescent centers. WHO counted 21 attacks on health workers and facilities by late March, with 17 Red Crescent centres struck and nearly 100 ambulances damaged or destroyed.
Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act slashes $863 billion from Medicaid and $295 billion from SNAP to fund $1 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthiest, projected to strip healthcare from 10.9 million people and food assistance from hundreds of thousands of older adults.
Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation
A sweeping executive order redefining sex across the federal government, with material consequences for transgender individuals in detention, healthcare, and civil documentation.
Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation
The systematically intensified US sanctions regime against Cuba has caused 20-hour blackouts, hospital closures, medication shortages for 5 million chronically ill people, and collapse of essential services. UN experts warned the measures may amount to collective punishment of civilians under international human rights law.
Grade 1 of 5: Significant Democratic Concern
The administration's attempt to repeal and replace the ACA failed through three separate legislative vehicles: the American Health Care Act (AHCA) passed the House but died in the Senate; the Better Care Reconciliation Act failed to advance in the Senate; and the 'skinny repeal' (Health Care Freedom Act) failed 51-49 when McCain, Murkowski, and Collins voted against it. Following legislative failure, the administration cut the Navigator program (enrollment assistance) from $63 million to $10 million, reduced the open enrollment window, and created an association of short-term health plans that could deny coverage for pre-existing conditions. Termination of cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers triggered premium increases and a complex subsidy dynamic that ultimately cost the government more than the payments themselves.
Grade 2 of 5: Major Abuse of Power
Having failed to repeal the ACA legislatively (defeated by the 51-49 Senate vote, including John McCain's thumbs-down), the Trump administration used regulatory and administrative mechanisms to undermine it: eliminating the individual mandate penalty, cutting navigator and outreach funding from $63 million to $10 million, supporting a lawsuit arguing the entire ACA was unconstitutional, and expanding short-term health plans that excluded pre-existing conditions. CBO projected that repealing the individual mandate penalty (enacted by Congress in the 2017 tax law, which the President signed) would increase the number of uninsured by 13 million by 2027.