Wednesday, January 17, 2018

More Bad News Heading Our Way

Under the Obama administration an executive order said that hospitals and other healthcare facilities that receive federal funding  could not prevent same-sex partners from visiting their partners. Well the current administration is about to issue an edict.
Administration to shield health workers who refuse to perform abortions or treat transgender patients
Politico
By Dan Diamond and Jennifer Haberkorn
01/16/2018

The Trump administration is planning new protections for health workers who don't want to perform abortions, refuse to treat transgender patients based on their gender identity or provide other services for which they have moral objections.

Under a proposed rule — which has been closely guarded at HHS and is now under review by the White House — the HHS office in charge of civil rights would be empowered to further shield these workers and punish organizations that don’t allow them to express their moral objections, according to sources on and off the Hill.
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Roger Severino, the Trump administration appointee who now leads the HHS civil rights office, has repeatedly stressed that strengthening conscience protections for health care workers is a top priority for his office.

The pending rule, which could be released as soon as this week, has been described to POLITICO as establishing a new “division” of the HHS civil rights office that would conduct compliance reviews, audits and other enforcement actions to ensure that health care providers are allowing workers to opt out of procedures when they have religious or moral objections.
This is what I fear.

You get in a car accident say down in Florida and the EMTs come rushing up to your car, stop when they see that you are trans, turn around and walk away saying we don’t help freaks, it is against our religion. So as you are bleeding out they find EMTs who will help you, and they rush you to the nearest hospital.  As they wheel you into the ER you hear the doctors saying “get ‘IT’ out of here this is a religious hospital."

Sound farfetched? Not if these rules goes through. This will probably override non-discrimination state laws; I see it end in a battle in the courts.

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