Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/14277007

DeepL:

„Äußerst beunruhigend und unethisch“: Neue Vorschriften erlauben es Ärzten der Veteranenbehörde, Demokraten und unverheiratete Veteranen die Behandlung zu verweigern.

Das Ministerium für Veteranenangelegenheiten erklärt, die Änderungen seien eine Reaktion auf eine Verordnung von Trump zum „Schutz von Frauen“.

  • Mearuu@kbin.melroy.org
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    21 hours ago

    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.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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      21 hours ago

      I think this is the point - headline will be

      “<demographic to be vilified> attacks and kills VA nurse/doctor/etc. Government to investigate risks from <demographic>”

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      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.

      • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        20 hours ago

        i just can’t imagine living life being that obsessed with other people’s relationships/orientations that have absolutely no impact on my life

    • Stern@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      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.

  • SmoothOperator@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    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.

    • m0darn@lemmy.ca
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      18 hours ago

      Just like how the law equally prevents the rich and the poor from sleeping under bridges.

    • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      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

      • SmoothOperator@lemmy.world
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        18 hours ago

        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.

    • Lojcs@lemm.ee
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      21 hours ago

      Everything’s politics mfs when I refuse to treat them bcs they don’t like garlic

    • Goretantath@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      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.

      • assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works
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        17 hours ago

        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.