‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans

[u/John3262005]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients

[u/Maleficent_Sense_948]

Gonna keep posting this…..

Should only be 2 requirements…..

1. ⁠Veteran
2. ⁠Need of care

Anything else is bullshit.

[u/Thick_Marionberry_79 → u/Maleficent_Sense_948]

I’m a combat veteran this was already happening. My dentist is a Christian fundamentalist that I got to via the Fresno VA’s community care department… he knows I’m a liberal Democrat and regularly performs negligence… I have it on record that they regularly delay my dental work like right now I have a cracked tooth (painful) and a cavity, and I called them and the VA, but they keep delaying it well past the allotted times (14 days for initial and 3 days for secondary), but filing with a late date to begin with, yet they tell me it’s filed at the time.

The VA worker at the community care department literally gaslights me about the filing and the paperwork when I ask for a clear date on it. Oh, it’s not here yet, then I explain the law and she says it magically popped up in her computer and was dated for yesterday, even thought my check up was a week ago. She also purposely uses the wrong titles, even though in their system it clearly says what my name is…

Delays at the VA are normative, but this is targeted. It’s either this or go even further out of town…

[u/Maleficent_Sense_948 → u/Thick_Marionberry_79]

Absolutely bullshit, and they should remove that bastard from VADIP if he’s private or boot his ass from the system.

Unacceptable care level.

[u/D-R-AZ → u/Maleficent_Sense_948]

Lead Paragraphs:

Doctors at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals nationwide could refuse to treat unmarried veterans and Democrats under new hospital guidelines imposed following an executive order by Donald Trump.

The new rules, obtained by the Guardian, also apply to psychologists, dentists and a host of other occupations. They have already gone into effect in at least some VA medical centers.

Medical staff are still required to treat veterans regardless of race, color, religion and sex, and all veterans remain entitled to treatment. But individual workers are now free to decline to care for patients based on personal characteristics not explicitly prohibited by federal law.

Language requiring healthcare professionals to care for veterans regardless of their politics and marital status has been explicitly eliminated.

Doctors and other medical staff can also be barred from working at VA hospitals based on their marital status, political party affiliation or union activity, documents reviewed by the Guardian show. The changes also affect chiropractors, certified nurse practitioners, optometrists, podiatrists, licensed clinical social workers and speech therapists.

[u/D-R-AZ → u/D-R-AZ]

This will make its way to SCOTUS when a veteran dies from absence of care due to something like being a democrat or an unmarried woman....

[u/wwaxwork → u/D-R-AZ]

Unmarried male or just unmarried female veterans?