• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Well… there is a federal path to handling state level health care crises.

    Two magical ingredients.

    First is to actually declare a state of emergency in the Y’all Qaeda infested regions of the US on the basis of denied healthcare leading to the current and worsening humanitarian crisis in those areas; and in doing so, enabling the VA to provide abortion services to non-veterans under section §1784 of title 38, United States Code.

    Second is federal enclave, which pretty much states that on federal facilities, state law can eat a bag of dicks.

    This dystopian GOP shit is maddening. We need to stop trying to argue with it, and start finding ways to just work around it. Fuck em.

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      4 months ago

      That could end up whiplashing as the administration passes between US factions, no?

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        Absolutely, but it’s a lot better than whatever the hell we’re doing now. And it can happen fast - biggest holdup would be the sudden change in supply/staffing demands at relatively few facilities, but the VA can limp along while doing its best until those needs are met.

        This is speaking as a veteran who receives care at the VA - if there’s one thing they can do well, it’s juggling a clusterfuck while still somehow remaining operational.

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        Yes. Anything other than a new law or new decision by the Supreme Court is subject to the whims of the current administration.