Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has threatened to pull funding from a children’s hospital after a doctor went viral for telling patients they are not legally required to disclose their citizenship status.
Dr. Tony Pastor, an adult congenital cardiologist at Texas Children’s Hospital and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, posted a video on TikTok, responding to Abbott’s executive orderrequiring Texas public hospitals that accept Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Plan to report on health care for undocumented immigrants. The order was implemented Nov. 1.
Consequences: doctors leave Texas
Anyone rational is looking at alternatives to Texas.
Anyone with any amount of desirable skills and foresight is looking at alternatives to the US.
Is the right to state facts not a thing anymore? I thought speech was in the Constitution or something.
Abbot is a limp chode
he should fuck off to someplace that doesn’t have internet so we can forget about him.
Get used to hearing the “pull funding” threat, it’s how they’re going to start chipping away at minority rights (LGBTQ+, women, Latino, Black, etc).
Have your three branches of government pass an act tying a state-decision to federal funding ala the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, and we’re going to see state’s comply.
Didn’t they already find out when they ran out of obstetricians?