George Bush Legalizes Medical " Prejudice "

   This could only come from a Republican idiot and George Bush certainly fits the bill. Our asshate President has pretty much made being prejudice an official law with the name of a "right of conscience."

   So basically, if I happen to have to go to the emergency room of a hospital for some reason and the attending physician smells a beer on my breath, he can refuse to treat me because he is opposed to alcohol.  " right of conscience " can cover many things and for the most stupid reasons.

The controversial rule empowers federal health officials to cut off federal funding for any state or local government, hospital, clinic, health plan, doctor's office or other entity if it does not accommodate employees who exercise their "right of conscience." It would apply to more than 584,000 health-care facilities.

"Doctors and other health care providers should not be forced to choose between good professional standing and violating their conscience," Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said in a statement.

Leavitt has said the regulation was intended to protect workers who object to abortion, but both supporters and critics said the rule remains broad enough to protect pharmacists, doctors, nurses and others who do not wish to dispense birth control pills, Plan B emergency contraceptives and other forms of contraception. While primarily aimed at doctors and nurses, it offers protection to anyone -- including ultrasound technicians, nurses aides, secretaries and even janitors who have any role in the service.

   I have a question.  If I'm a doctor and George Bush is brought into the hospital that I happen to be working in, and he's near fatal, can I refuse to treat him because my  "right of conscience"  doesn't approve of war crimes performed by the said individual?

    For a funny, but serious, look at how this shit could go, read here.

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Republican's Engage In Class Warfare....

   which is nothing new with this group of creeps.

    The GOP is using the UAW as their excuse for derailing the auto manufacturer bailout. the UAW wouldn't take a pay-cut down to the level that workers make at Toyota and others. The fact is that Toyota and the rest of the foreign workers should be making what our Big 3 is making. But, that's for another time.

  OpEdNews

The failed negotiations in the Senate over the Detroit bailout bill provide Americans with a preview of the political class warfare that will break out in the next Congress. The attempt by the Senate to pass a Bush White House-Democratic bill failed. It was scuttled by a group of conservative Republican Senators led by Tennessee's Bob Corker. They pushed to revise the bailout in a deal-breaking way that would allow them to blame unionized auto workers for its demise.

Corker's group framed the issue as one of protecting taxpayers from greedy, overpaid, unionized workers who had contributed to the American auto industry's demise. By so doing it sought to harness American outrage over bailouts to an anti-union political agenda. Both efforts were highly cynical and hypocritical examples of the politics of class warfare at its worst.

Corker entered the negotiations by demanding that the automakers reduce the wages and benefits of unionized workers to the level of Honda and Toyota's American factory workers. By imposing a demand on the union that was not required for any of the other parties--lenders, suppliers, dealers, or executives--Corker and his group were able to set up the auto workers union, the UAW, so that it would take the heat from the public if the bailout failed, or so that it would be weakened internally if it made the demanded wage concession.

  It would seem that this tactic has worked for them so far. Most Americans are buying into the " it's the unions fault " story from the Republicans. What a shame that we have to go through this sorry affair in the first place.

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