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While I'm very against the executive order they describe, the headline is misleading:
Language requiring healthcare professionals to care for veterans regardless of their politics and marital status has been explicitly eliminated.
So they can also refuse to treat e.g. republicans and married veterans.
lol I wouldn’t be surprised if the republicunts thought this was the ultimate checkmate
No VA doctor should be refusing to treat any patient for those reasons. It's absurd and unethical.
Problem is that good people wont do that, and bad people side with republicans so the only side thatl get hurt is as the headline describes.
I emotionally agree with you, but really the problem is that... anyone could do that in the future. Denying someone owed care because of political belief is a horrendous situation to explicitly allow, regardless of political affiliation.
Just like how the law equally prevents the rich and the poor from sleeping under bridges.
That's how it is in "both-sides" lala land but it's always going to be the pro-fascist side that abuses it the most
Sure, it's just important to recognize when abuse happens in the absence of law, and when abuse is law, as it would be for a law targeting Democrats and unmarried explicitly.
Everything's politics mfs when I refuse to treat them bcs they don't like garlic
In theory you are correct, but you are dangerously wrong in practice.
But individual workers are now free to decline to care for patients based on personal characteristics not explicitly prohibited by federal law.
An individual worker that denies treatment based on politics or marital status will become a target. Some of these veterans have very serious mental illness and will do violent things when they go off their meds.
There are already examples of veterans committing suicide in the parking lot of VA hospitals because they are denied proper care. In those examples there is no individual to blame so they feel lost and take their own life. If this is ever exercised and a veteran is denied care by an individual, that individual will be a ~~victim~~ valid target of a murder suicide. I guarantee it.
I think this is the point - headline will be
“ attacks and kills VA nurse/doctor/etc. Government to investigate risks from ”
Why on earth is there not a short list of criteria which allow you to deny care? I can only really imagine things like certain types of abusive behavior towards you/your staff and a personal connection to the patient as actual valid grounds for denial of medical treatment.
Because OFC, lets just add more harm
The fascist Hippocratic oath: "First do LOTS of harm"
wtf is the problem with unmarried veterans? this country redefines dumb every day
My now wife and I lived together for 10 years before we got married. A lot of pearl clutchers had a problem with that. I am guessing that is what they are referring to. Not single people, but unmarried cohabitants.
i just can't imagine living life being that obsessed with other people's relationships/orientations that have absolutely no impact on my life
I interpret it not as married or unmarried, but the gender they're married to, though maybe that wouldn't stand in court due to roundabout discrimination, I dunno.