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Hi my name is Mara Youdelman and i'm the Managing attorney of the National Health Program's Washington DC office i'd like to talk to you about section 1557 of the affordable care act today. Section 1557 is a really important provision that protects individuals from discrimination in health care programs and activities. It prevents discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity immigration status language proficiency sex, including sex stereotypes, sexual orientation and gender identity as well as discrimination on the basis of age and disability. National Health law program worked with a lot of other civil rights organizations and healthcare organizations to help craft section 1557 with members of Congress, as part of our work on the affordable care act. It really is a crucial provision that for the first time, specifically prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in health care programs and also really recognizes that they're intersections basis of discrimination we're an individu