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Rand Paul takes aim at ‘injustice’ of health facilities that deny care to unvaxxed patients
Fox News ^ | Feb 16 | Kelly Laco

Posted on 02/18/2023 3:58:43 AM PST by RandFan

Sen. Rand Paul is leading the charge to hold taxpayer-funded health institutions accountable for denying unvaccinated people critical care, including organ transplants.

Legislation introduced Tuesday from Paul, R-Ky., would bar federal funds from going to health care facilities that have denied patients care based on their COVID-19 vaccination status. It would also protect the rights of patients to make decisions about their health without being penalized.

"No American should be denied access to critical care based on a personal medical decision, yet tragically, many hospitals and other medical facilities continue to discriminate against those unvaccinated for COVID-19," Paul told Fox News Digital.

"The COVID-19 Vaccination Non-Discrimination Act will protect the rights of vulnerable patients to make their own health care choices and ensure that federal taxpayer dollars do not support facilities that turn away patients based on their COVID-19 vaccination status," he said.

According to Paul's office, the American Medical Association (AMA) has urged doctors to still provide care for patients, regardless of their COVID-19 vaccination status. However, there have been instances nationwide that reveal health care facilities receiving taxpayer dollars are doing the opposite.

One case is a 14-year-old girl in North Carolina who was denied a kidney transplant from Duke University Hospital because she was never vaccinated against COVID. The patient argued she already had the virus and therefore had natural immunity.

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Thank you, Rand.
1 posted on 02/18/2023 3:58:43 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Agreed.


2 posted on 02/18/2023 4:06:00 AM PST by rellic
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To: RandFan

The woke agenda has infected every institution from archaeology to zoology. Your future doctor will likely be a C student who minored in gender studies. They want to keep their jobs, so they’ll do whatever Saint Fauci and the Church of Wholesome Goodness tells them to do.


3 posted on 02/18/2023 4:09:15 AM PST by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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To: RandFan

Local hospital has removed mask requirements.
I figured they would be permanent.
Workers all smiling.


4 posted on 02/18/2023 4:17:24 AM PST by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: RandFan

Thank you Rand Paul!


5 posted on 02/18/2023 4:24:18 AM PST by Missouri gal
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To: rarestia

societal cancer runs deep


6 posted on 02/18/2023 4:24:27 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: RandFan

I no longer donate my pure blood. Why should I reward hospitals that withhold lifesaving treatment to the unvaxxed while begging for my rare blood type? I also removed the organ designation from my driver’s license. “First do no harm,” my ass.


7 posted on 02/18/2023 4:25:39 AM PST by Scarpetta (Trump won...by a lot. )
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To: RandFan

Because “Health Care” has been so politicized by the Left that it is no longer about your health but more about indoctrinating you and forcing your blind obedience - criminal to the point of being a capital crime.


8 posted on 02/18/2023 4:33:37 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: RandFan

1.Deny medical care to purebloods. 2. Purebloods die. 3. “Look! Look! The stupid unvaxxed are dying!”


9 posted on 02/18/2023 4:39:42 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: RandFan

Why is ‘injustice’ in quotation marks in the headline? Punctuation matters. It seems the headline would be more accurate without devaluing the key word.


10 posted on 02/18/2023 5:15:35 AM PST by oldplayer
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To: RandFan
About time!

11 posted on 02/18/2023 5:36:56 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: rarestia

I’ll bet the pharm industry is behind this.

Turns out there is little hospital administrators won’t do for a buck.

Thinking about it, I wonder if there is anything at all they wouldn’t do to people for a little scratch?


12 posted on 02/18/2023 5:39:34 AM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: ArcadeQuarters

“2. Purebloods die.”

I would not be at all surprised to find out they didn’t help this step along a little.


13 posted on 02/18/2023 5:41:22 AM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: RandFan

Rand Paul really is a hero. May God’s Holy Spirit in Christ Jesus fill him for continued service.


14 posted on 02/18/2023 5:43:47 AM PST by .30Carbine
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To: RandFan

…But they can’t deny care they illegals who have no intention of paying for it.


15 posted on 02/18/2023 6:06:20 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Sarcazmo

Don’t underestimate the power of the state and county health officials in these decisions.

I learned over the scamdemic, the most powerful person wasn’t the President of the United States, it was the county executives, county and state health officials,and governors in each of their little kingdoms..


16 posted on 02/18/2023 6:18:01 AM PST by delchiante
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To: rellic

FUNNY how “MY BODY—MY CHOICE” applies to killing a human-—but doesn’t apply to free choice regarding “vaccines”.


17 posted on 02/18/2023 7:45:53 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: RandFan

Even the Europeans and their love of the “vax” considered natural recovery equal to “vaxxed” for their vaccine papers.


18 posted on 02/18/2023 8:56:25 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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