Florida’s Pro-Corporate Anti-LGBTQ+ Healthcare Emergency Costs Everyone

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and even schools. Florida politicians and supporters like talking about gender affirmation surgery, but the new law doesn’t specify and goes much farther. There are few constraints and these sincerely held beliefs do not have to be documented in advance — although a company could memorialize their standards in company documents — mission statements, articles of incorporation, bylaws, company policies. Individuals need only write some after-the-fact statement of belief, and there’s no protection against employer coercion. Hater free speech is protected. Caring, concerned free speech is not. The power of government is used to protect medical violence against people rather than prevent it.None of these providers or insurers must prove church attendance or abiding and continuing beliefs. It’s pretty easy to concoct impromptu or expedient statements of belief. If anyone, gay, trans, bi, non-binary, or cis, gets a disease or condition with possible, if remote or even ridiculous, attachment to something a critic may attribute to moral turpitude, doctors can refuse to treat (in violation of Hippocratic oath), other medical professionals can refuse service, and insurance companies can deny coverage. Get heart disease, cancer, hypertension, pregnancy, hypercholesterolemia, or anything related to women’s health because women aren’t supposed to complain about anything, and someone can cook up a reason why your low moral character was the cause.It’s also easy to predict that some providers will abruptly produce convenient, strongly held convictions against patients who are slow to pay, don’t look like them, speak a different language, practice a different religion or none, or somehow annoy them. They won’t have to prove any continuing belief system. They can devise conscience-based objections on an ad hoc basis and put objections in any terms that work. The race, color, religion, sex, or national or

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igin protection language, a ruse to make this look at all constitutional, is easy to get around — assert some vague immorality about the condition such as smoking, unhealthy diet, or sexual activity.The required written statements of beliefs offers no protection. Cut, paste, and copy from that email sent by the bible-thumping but not bible-reading pastor who took the tax break but still endorsed Republican political candidates. Laws like Florida’s SB 1580 highlight Americans’ prejudices and foolishness, many created, perpetuated, and magnified by the media. They’re handing profitable health service and payor corporations easy out cards while creating havoc in medical waiting rooms and sending surprise medical bills to people who paid their insurance premiums and most likely have no idea they’re supporting this stuff through their silence and acceptance of yours.Funny, insurance companies never have strong beliefs about accepting premium payments when they know they’re not going to pay out. Medical providers never seem to know what anything is going to cost beforehand but have no problems sending out the bill expeditiously.For the most part, Florida is not governing the deeply held beliefs of pious individuals however sincere or insincere they may be, they’re governing insurance corporation and medical groups, hospitals, nursing facilities and labs owned by private equity firms. I ask you to ponder this question, since when do corporate entities and profit seeking destructors of everything they touch have sincerely held religious, ethical or moral beliefs about anything?Smug bigots in Florida cheer this oppression of the LGBTQ+ community but probably won’t know what hit them when they can’t get care or get care and receive surprise huge medical bills thereafter. They all forgot they were against death panels before they were for them.</article></body>

Insurance Companies Have Sincere Deeply Held Beliefs Against Paying Claims

Media coverage of the Florida healthcare discrimination bill has been grossly inadequate. This law creates a healthcare emergency, yet the press treats it like yesterday’s news.

Florida Senate Bill 1580, signed by Florida Governor DeSantis on May 18, 2023, allows healthcare providers and insurers to refuse services. It goes into effect on July 1, 2023. The media characterized this law as another transgender discrimination bill, potentially affecting about 0.5% of Floridians, and as such, has been largely ignored, as have other anti-transgender measures by the mostly trans-apathetic media and populace. The bill also promotes discrimination against gay, bisexual, nonbinary, and other people in the LGBTQIA+ community.

It’s a disgrace that Americans either cheer or ignore such inhumane and dangerous treatment of their fellow Americans based on gender. But, as with most discriminatory laws and practices, this one will reach well beyond the initial targets and will end up harming many more Americans, including all Floridians and residents of other states soon to impose similar discriminatory practices once the medical and insurance communities find them lucrative and convenient, and Florida escapes accountability for its gross violation of the US Constitution, medical ethics and all reasonable definitions of morals and ethics.

The law allows a wide array of medical and not-so-medical providers to refuse all medical, medical procurement, or related services, including physicians, nurses, pharmacies, hospitals, insurers, trustees, guardians, mental health providers, medical testing and diagnostic facilities and laboratories, nursing homes, medical transport services, and even schools. Florida politicians and supporters like talking about gender affirmation surgery, but the new law doesn’t specify and goes much farther. There are few constraints and these sincerely held beliefs do not have to be documented in advance — although a company could memorialize their standards in company documents — mission statements, articles of incorporation, bylaws, company policies. Individuals need only write some after-the-fact statement of belief, and there’s no protection against employer coercion. Hater free speech is protected. Caring, concerned free speech is not. The power of government is used to protect medical violence against people rather than prevent it.

None of these providers or insurers must prove church attendance or abiding and continuing beliefs. It’s pretty easy to concoct impromptu or expedient statements of belief. If anyone, gay, trans, bi, non-binary, or cis, gets a disease or condition with possible, if remote or even ridiculous, attachment to something a critic may attribute to moral turpitude, doctors can refuse to treat (in violation of Hippocratic oath), other medical professionals can refuse service, and insurance companies can deny coverage. Get heart disease, cancer, hypertension, pregnancy, hypercholesterolemia, or anything related to women’s health because women aren’t supposed to complain about anything, and someone can cook up a reason why your low moral character was the cause.

It’s also easy to predict that some providers will abruptly produce convenient, strongly held convictions against patients who are slow to pay, don’t look like them, speak a different language, practice a different religion or none, or somehow annoy them. They won’t have to prove any continuing belief system. They can devise conscience-based objections on an ad hoc basis and put objections in any terms that work. The race, color, religion, sex, or national origin protection language, a ruse to make this look at all constitutional, is easy to get around — assert some vague immorality about the condition such as smoking, unhealthy diet, or sexual activity.

The required written statements of beliefs offers no protection. Cut, paste, and copy from that email sent by the bible-thumping but not bible-reading pastor who took the tax break but still endorsed Republican political candidates. Laws like Florida’s SB 1580 highlight Americans’ prejudices and foolishness, many created, perpetuated, and magnified by the media. They’re handing profitable health service and payor corporations easy out cards while creating havoc in medical waiting rooms and sending surprise medical bills to people who paid their insurance premiums and most likely have no idea they’re supporting this stuff through their silence and acceptance of yours.

Funny, insurance companies never have strong beliefs about accepting premium payments when they know they’re not going to pay out. Medical providers never seem to know what anything is going to cost beforehand but have no problems sending out the bill expeditiously.

For the most part, Florida is not governing the deeply held beliefs of pious individuals however sincere or insincere they may be, they’re governing insurance corporation and medical groups, hospitals, nursing facilities and labs owned by private equity firms. I ask you to ponder this question, since when do corporate entities and profit seeking destructors of everything they touch have sincerely held religious, ethical or moral beliefs about anything?

Smug bigots in Florida cheer this oppression of the LGBTQ+ community but probably won’t know what hit them when they can’t get care or get care and receive surprise huge medical bills thereafter. They all forgot they were against death panels before they were for them.