I hope he falls victim to this bullshit

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.

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.

Because OFC, lets just add more harm

They appear to think Title 9 doesn't affect the VA, which it definitionally does. Even their hand picked justice Gorsuch says refusing treatment while taking government funds for gay people is discriminating against their sex. EG: Carol can marry a man, but Jimmy can't, so this is sex discrimination against the employee.

Any doctor who actually denies treatment over political affiliation or marital status should immediately and irrevocably lose their license.

Conservatives are traitors to our nation and enemies of the American people.

"Oh you voted Republican? Sorry you voted to deny this care, goodbye"

"Wait not like that"

Of course that won't actually happen, because an ethical doctor would treat people regardless.

Denying care to veterans (i.e. people potentially with extensive weapons and combat training and, perhaps desperately, in need of healing to feel okay and socially stable) seems like a great way for health care professionals to find themselves at the business end of anger-fueled reactions.

Don't medical personnel have to take a Hippocratic oath? And doesn't that supersede changing laws?

I suppose in real life, cash is king, and morality is decided by the amount of digits in your bank account.

I was initially confused about the source of this report, as all it says is that "The new rules, obtained by the Guardian [...]" Without sharing the new rules they obtained verbatim or linking to any VA guidance or statements or anything actually useful...

But it looks like this is more a removal of patients' protections rather than an explicit allowance of discrimination. Not that there's a practical difference between those things. Anyways if anyone is confused on how this exactly happened like I was, this yahoo article seemed to explain it better IMO:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/va-doctors-refuse-treat-dems-151419852.html?guccounter=1

VA hospital bylaws previously barred medical staff from discriminating against patients “on the basis of race, age, color, sex, religion, national origin, politics, marital status or disability in any employment matter,”

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But now, in response to President Donald Trump’s January executive order on “gender ideology,” “national origin,” “politics,” and “marital status” have been removed from the list

If only there were signs that this was going to happen.... buy the ticket, take the ride!

doctors could refuse to treat veterans based on their "reason for seeking care - including allegations of rape and sexual assault - current or past political party affiliation or political activity, and personal behavior such as alcohol or marijuana use".

An incredibly high number of veterans (or anyone, really) with PTSD have or had substance use disorder. A large percentage of those same veterans have MST (military sexual trauma). Quite a lot of people are discharged from the military following disclosure of being a victim of rape or sexual assault while serving. This is going to lead to more veterans killing themselves because they aren't getting the care they deserve

If it's based off "political affiliation," couldn't some doctors refuse to treat trump supporters if they were sneaky about it?

Would be a shame if doctors violating their oath had something bad happen to them .