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
    25·
    12 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
      81·
      11 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>”

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 hours ago

      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.