Wisconsin Joins Lawsuit Against New Healthcare Rule
Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 -- 7:42 AM
(WRN) -Wisconsin is joining a lawsuit to prevent a Trump Administration rule allowing doctors to deny health care based on religious or personal beliefs.Wisconsin is joining a lawsuit to prevent a Trump Administration rule allowing doctors to deny health care based on religious or personal beliefs. Attorney General Josh Kaul says the rule can put people in vulnerable situations at risk.
"Consider this from the patient's perspective, if a patient shows up to get needed health care, particularly if emergency health care is needed, we need to ensure that those people aren't being denied lawful health care."
Kaul says the rule puts both patients and hospitals at risk.
"Somebody who needs emergency care, for example, would have to risk potentially going to several different hospitals, or hospitals may have to hire people who are backups in case somebody chooses to object."
Kaul says the penalties for the rule are more severe than is reasonable.
"With just a single violation this rule would give the Trump Administration the ability to deny all federal health care funds to the state of Wisconsin, which is 6 point 7 billion dollars worth of funds."
Kaul says the rule could allow a nurse to stop providing vaccines, or a doctor from refusing to perform an abortion when a mother's life is threatened. Wisconsin joins a coalition of 23 cities and states in the lawsuit.
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