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.

  • BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    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.

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      23 days ago

      You’re very right but there are a few blue states like California that could be tell the feds to fuck right off. Granted that’s the start of a civil war but we’re kinda already on that path one way or another

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    23 days ago

    Is the right to state facts not a thing anymore? I thought speech was in the Constitution or something.

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      22 days ago

      Doesn’t mean people can’t react to what you say… In this case, in a politically-motivated nonsensical way.

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    22 days ago

    That type of doctor is highly highly specialized among medicine. I’m sure other places would love to have him and his experience. Unfortunately the kids there in Texas suffer as political ideology prevail there. We die as ignorance rules

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    23 days ago

    Abbot is a limp chode

    he should fuck off to someplace that doesn’t have internet so we can forget about him.