Rand Paul introduces bill to defund hospitals that discriminate against people who refuse COVID jabs - LifeSite
No American should be denied access to critical care based on a personal medical decision, yet tragically, many hospitals and other medical facilities continue to discriminate against those unvaccinated for COVID-19,” Paul told Fox News. “The COVID-19 Vaccination Non-Discrimination Act will protect the rights of vulnerable patients to make their own health care choices and ensure that federal taxpayer dollars do not support facilities that turn away patients based on their COVID-19 vaccination status.”
Paul’s office cited the case of Yulia Hicks, a 14-year-old whom Duke Children’s Hospital denied a kidney transplant because she was unvaccinated for COVID, despite having already recovered from – and gained natural immunity to – the virus. (A GiveSendGo page for Ulia was last updated December 21, saying her parents had “made progress towards identifying a hospital in Florida …