Florida health care can now be denied based on moral, ethical, religious beliefs
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Re: Florida health care can now be denied based on moral, ethical, religious beliefs
#2So does this mean you can deny medical care to those who support this bill?
[That feels like that would be in the spirit of this bill]
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#3The hippocratic oath, well-known to have always come with an asterisk pointing to a 20-page EULA
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#4The title and article aren't quite telling you the truth.
The bill allows providers to decline to provide specific services where those services are in opposition to their beliefs.
It does not allow them to deny all health care, just those specific services they are opposed to.
It's a subtle difference, but an important one.
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#6So, if I was a Dr., and a supporter of this law came under my care for a serious condition, could I throw him out of my office because of my religious beliefs
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#7The title and article aren't quite telling you the truth. The bill allows providers to decline to provide specific services where those services are in opposition to their beliefs. It does not allow them to deny all health care, just those specific services they are opposed to. It's a subtle difference, but an important one.
So a doctor could refuse to prescribe PrEP or treat STDs? Also, it does look like services could be denied to specific people based on gender identity or sexuality, per the article.
> While the legislation says that health care providers can't use it to deny care based on a patient's race, color, religion, sex or national origin, attempts by Democratic lawmakers to extend those protections to gender identity and sexuality failed.
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#9The hippocratic oath, well-known to have always come with an asterisk pointing to a 20-page EULA
Are you sure you're talking about the right oath?
> [...] Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. [...]
Doctors aren't even made to swear to this oath. They can if they want to, or another oath if they please, or no oath at all as far as I know.
Re: Florida health care can now be denied based on moral, ethical, religious beliefs
#10The title and article aren't quite telling you the truth. The bill allows providers to decline to provide specific services where those services are in opposition to their beliefs. It does not allow them to deny all health care, just those specific services they are opposed to. It's a subtle difference, but an important one.
My beliefs are that felons are unredeemable and undeserving of any care provision whatsoever. Hence, "just those specific services" becomes all health care.
One should always imagine the worst case when writing good laws. Unfortunately, we all know this law is not meant to be good, it's meant to be a wedge.