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2022-01-14 -Land of the Free
Roberts and Kavanaugh Side with Lefties, Allow Healthcare Worker Vax Mandate to Stand
[Gateway] The US Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Joe Biden’s OSHA vax mandate for private businesses with 100+ employees.

In a separate, simultaneously released ruling, the highest court of the land — in a 5-4 vote — allowed a similar vaccine mandate for healthcare facilities that receive Medicaid and Medicare to stand.

Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Clarence Thomas dissented.

"These cases are not about the efficacy or importance of COVID—19 vaccines. They are only about whether CMS has the statutory authority to force healthcare workers, by coercing their employers, to undergo a medical procedure they do not want and cannot undo. Because the Government has not made a strong showing that Congress gave CMS that broad authority, I would deny the stays pending appeal. I respectfully dissent." Justice Thomas wrote in his dissenting opinion.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-14 01:38|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top

#1 In a separate, simultaneously released ruling, the highest court of the land — in a 5-4 vote — allowed a similar vaccine mandate for healthcare facilities that receive Medicaid and Medicare to stand.

So forget the Congress and the Constitution. If you accept the federal dollar, you will do as we (Joe Biden) says.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-14 01:43||   2022-01-14 01:43|| Front Page Top

#2 ok, new game now...
Posted by 746 2022-01-14 03:47||   2022-01-14 03:47|| Front Page Top

#3 ...As much as I hate to say this, two cheers for the medical worker mandate. My wife is a CNA, my father in law just retired after 50 years as a physician, and they both supported health workers being vaxed.

My wife's position at least was very plain and clear: she worked with hospice patients - mostly elderly - in order to give them something resembling peace and dignity in their last days. The idea of her passing, even unknowingly, COVID on to one of these folks was utterly abhorrent to her. Mind you, this was before Omicron and its ability to carry without symptoms, but I believe the main point still applies - if you're going to work with the medically vulnerable, you have to take every possible precaution available.

And let me clarify - if any of my fellow 'Burgers reading this are health care workers and do NOT agree with the mandate, it does not change my regard or respect for you as I hope it will not change those things with you for me. This is something I believe reasonable people can disagree on.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2022-01-14 06:44||   2022-01-14 06:44|| Front Page Top

#4 I wonder how all those healthcare workers who worked all the way through this bullshit without a vax feel about being fired for not bending the knee?
Posted by Chris 2022-01-14 08:30||   2022-01-14 08:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Where and when did the Healthcare workers sign away their basic human rights?
Posted by CrazyFool 2022-01-14 08:53||   2022-01-14 08:53|| Front Page Top

#6 The "feds pay so feds make the rules" thing is flawed logic. There is no such thing as "federal money." There is revenue taken coercively from the citizens in the form of taxation. In that sense, it remains the citizens money, but the taint of passage through the maw of FedGov is used to justify lots of injustice.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-14 09:09||   2022-01-14 09:09|| Front Page Top

#7 And so far none points that Congress wrote the law that the 5-4 majority relied on to back up the vax mandate for healthcare workers. That mandate does NOT apply to healthcare systems which refuse to accept federal money (very few of them exist). Congress is free at any time to amend that law to exclude vax mandates. None has pointed this out. 100% of the House and about 33% of the Senate is up for reelection this year, but this issue will most likely never be mentioned in the campaigns.
Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2022-01-14 14:42||   2022-01-14 14:42|| Front Page Top

#8 
Where and when did the Healthcare workers sign away their basic human rights?
The right to be unemployed has not been impaired.
Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2022-01-14 14:43||   2022-01-14 14:43|| Front Page Top

#9 So the dancing nurses will be more susceptible to miscarriage and strokes.

What a shame.
Posted by Hupolulet Barnsmell6917 2022-01-14 18:55||   2022-01-14 18:55|| Front Page Top

#10 The right to be unemployed has not been impaired.

They should be able to ply their trade and do what they are trained for. It should be between the worker - and the healthcare facility.

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-01-14 23:40||   2022-01-14 23:40|| Front Page Top

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