Florida Senate passes bill allowing medical professionals to refuse care if it violates beliefs

[riversedge]

The so called professionals should not be allowed to work in public health clinics or hospitals




Florida Senate passes bill allowing medical professionals to refuse care if it violates beliefs
https://news.yahoo.com/florida-senate-passes-bill-allowing-213251665.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr



Jake Stofan Fri, April 28, 2023 at 4:32 PM CDT·3 min read


Florida doctors and insurers could soon opt-out of performing or paying for medical services if they believe it violates their religious, ethical or moral beliefs.

The bill ensures medical professionals and insurers will be held harmless both professionally and legally if they opt-out from participating in or paying for a health care service due to their belief it violates their religious, moral or ethical conscience.



“This bill screams, reeks of discrimination,” State Senator Tracie Davis (D-Jacksonville) said while debating the bill on the Senate floor Friday......................

[intrepidity]

1. Insurers???

"Our belief is we need to maximize profits, therefore we deny your claim."

[Mr.Bill]

17. They probably wrote the bill. n/t

[Cha]

19. lol ikr.. smh at the POS FL legislators

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. Tell me again why people vote Republican??

[Cha]

20. Brainwashed until they let fux

sewer do their thinking for them

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Once we enter the sanctity of belief for everything, society will come to a halt

I can believe anything and justify it because I believe it.

There was an episode of the old sitcom "Family Affair" with Brian Keith and Sebastion Cabot. The kids were trying to have everything their way, and the dad (Keith) had to convince them "we can't live in the land of do as you please".

That's where we're at now.

[Matthew28]

4. This is evil

This is the kind of crap that this country fought against in the middle east for decades on end. I can't believe it is taking over entire states in our own country.

[Throck]

5. So force someone to do something against their beliefs?

Would that compromise quality control?

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. Ever read this? Every physician has.

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not", nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life and save life wherever possible within reason; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.

[bucolic_frolic]

22. Desegregation was against their beliefs

and likely still is. Beliefs will rule everything if this is allowed to stand.

[icymist]

6. What? You're transgender even with money?

Then die.

What? You're poor with no money?
Then die.

What? You're an immigrant even with money?
Then die.

I am so sick of these hypocrites with their 'deeply held religious beliefs' as a back door to bigoted and racial discrimination.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. FUCK RELIGION!!!!!!!!

[70sEraVet]

8. An insurance company has a 'conscience'?

Something stinks in Panama City.

The bill sponsor pointed out that nothing in the legislation allows for discrimination based on the patient themselves.

“Rather, it specifically focuses on what procedure the doctor or nurse is asked to perform,” State Senator Jay Trumbull (R-Panama City) said.

(same article)

[madinmaryland]

18. "Companies ARE people". !! Mitt Romney said that, so it must be true.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

9. And WHERE in the Constitution is the basis for this ?

GOP maggots are destroying Florida, one step at a time, turning it into a Fascist paradise.

[RKP5637]

10. Florida is now a VERY ugly place *for all types of people.* Any feeling we still have the

old Florida, it is not. Florida sucks! We're getting out of this place asap. There are now endless negatives. What a shame, I used to love it here. It is not going to change because we have almost all republicans top to bottom in politics. Plus a major influx of MAGA people that love this shit. For the LGBT people and immigrants and People of Color there have been significant travel advisories. Do not visit Florida and do not even vacation in Florida, and do not relocate to Florida and for some get out asap. What a shit show Florida has become. People with an accents have been advised to be careful, it might provoke an incident.

[sakabatou]

11. Florida protects bigots again

[Initech]

14. Yup, the bad guys win again.

[RKP5637]

15. Yeah, "Home of The Bigots." If a Bigot, come to Florida, we welcome you.

Anyone else, get the hell out. We are purifying the state. There is more truth to this than one might think.

[Initech]

13. They are taking this country so damn backwards it's scary.

Fuck the Fox News MAGA GQP Fundamentalist Taliban!

[Docreed2003]

16. Making America "Great" again

You know, like back in the not too distant past where there were "separate but equal" hospitals. This makes me sick

[RainCaster]

21. As a patient, Could I refuse to pay for medical aid that violates my religion?

If my doctor can refuse to give me care, I should be able to refuse to pay. For any reason.

[dickthegrouch]

23. Need some federal incentives here!

Any hospital, medical organization, doctors office, insurance company, receiving even a single dollar of federal funding, or payment for services rendered, or any grants or federal tax relief or any combination thereof must serve all patients equally. Failure to do so triggers forfeiture of all federal money received in that fiscal year without other recourse against any patient.

Doctors with the propensity for violating their sacred Hippocratic Oath may be fired summarily without appeal or recourse for endangering the institution’s federal funding.

I’m sure others can improve on this. But let’s get it done.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

24. those "students for life" folks are against birth control pills for EVERYTHING...

not just for use as BC, which they consider to be abortion because it prevents implant of fertlized egg. but for medical conditions also... so a doctor who has the same beliefs would not prescribe BC for for endometriosis or other conditions helped by BC.

Slippery slope.

[keithbvadu2]

25. Can Protestants/Catholics refuse to treat the other?

Can Protestants/Catholics refuse to treat the other?

Many P/C religionists believer the other is not a real Christian.

They both can refuse to treat Jews?

Billy/Franklin Graham both believed that Catholics and Mormons are not Christians.