
- Expand eligibility for paid family leave to include anyone who, because of a serious health condition that places them at grave risk from COVID-19, has been advised by their physician to remain home
- Expand eligibility for paid family leave or additional financial support to include anyone who has been advised by a physician to remain home because there is a member of their household who has a serious health condition that places them at grave risk from COVID-19
- Remove the arbitrary time limit on paid leave to ensure that these individuals can remain home as long as the COVID-19 pandemic poses a risk to their health and wellbeing
- Ensure this program applies to employers of all sizes
- Remind states that federal law prohibits treatment allocation decisions based on assumptions about a person’s disability or age that will diminish their prospect of survival
- Clarify that allocation decisions based on life years or life expectancy discriminate against disable people and older adults
- Clarify that modifications must be made where needed to have equal opportunity benefit from treatment
- Modifications include interpreter services, increase baseline times for treatment response or additional service needs
- Recommend the Office of Human Rights advise states to maintain data surrounding health care rationing during COVID-19 including tracking of Intensive Care Unit rates and number of patients denied care
- Institute step therapy guardrails and protections for all MA, PDP and Medicaid MCO plans during the public health emergency (PHE)
- Institute similar step therapy guardrails and protections for ERISA plans governed by the Department of Labor during the extent of the public health emergency
- Enact these same protections outside of the public health emergency for at least one year after end date of the PHE