If you as a patient are going to be treated like trash, then maybe your money is also trash

[ck4829]

If she's trash, then clearly you don't want her trash money, right? And if that money is all good legal tender, then clearly you don't want anyone's trash money.

Let's start using the language hospital administrators understand if they don't want to stand up to red states.

Some hospitals in Texas have reportedly refused to treat patients with major pregnancy complications for fear of violating the state’s abortion ban, the Texas Medical Association said in a letter this week.

The association did not name the hospitals but said it’s received complaints that hospitals, administrators and their attorneys may be prohibiting doctors from providing medically appropriate care in some situations, The Dallas Morning News reported.

The letter, sent Wednesday to the Texas Medical Board, cited several examples in which medical care was delayed.

In one case, a central Texas hospital reportedly told a physician not to treat an ectopic pregnancy until it ruptured, the letter said. An ectopic pregnancy, which occurs when a fertilized egg attached outside of the uterus, is not viable.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/texas-hospitals-delaying-care-over-violating-abortion-law

[scarletlib]

1. Money talks. Sue the bastards for medical malpractice, physical pain and emotional pain.

[ck4829]

6. Yep, the profit motive is a double edged sword

[Hortensis]

2. This is a serious issue. Hospitals have to deal with this POLITICAL disaster

that's hit them and making it illegal for them to care for some pregnant patients.

Imo, imagining them as an enemy along with the extremists in the Republican Party is not a thoughtful or helpful way to understand or deal with this problem. It is a problem in itself.

Our role is to speak to others and to commit to voting the way this all could have been avoided. Democrats don't do these things. Everyone knows that when he thinks.

No excuses, no blaming hospitals. VOTE to elect people who do good things and stop bad people.

[ck4829]

4. And voting is in November, so we can revisit the issue of resuming paying medical bills in November

And in that meantime, hospitals can become an actual enemy to those extremists in the Republican Party.

The US has a sorry standard for care, and this should be the impetus, no more paying more to receive a quality of care that is lesser than other developed countries that will be aggravated by Dobbs.

If they don't want people to imagine them as an enemy, then it's on them to do that. I'm not going to give them that for free. They have not earned that.

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3. It is what happens when you let politicians dictate medical care.

Perhaps they will refuse to treat people of color next. Perhaps, they should not treat old people because they are near death anyway. It seems that some doctors are now subscribing to the hypocritic code.

This is the face of Fascism. It is getting worse, not better, and we are not doing enough to stop it.

[ck4829]

5. Indeed, and it is unacceptable across the board