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Florida will not enforce President Joe Bidens vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, which was upheld on Thursday by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined Chief Justice John Roberts and the courts liberal wing to save the mandate, which requires workers in medical facilities which receive Medicare or Medicaid funding to be vaccinated.
The court struck down another mandate which would have used OSHA to compel businesses with more than 100 employees to require them to be vaccinated or submit to regular testing.
Friday, Florida announced it will not comply with the healthcare worker mandate.
A memo from the state Agency for Health Care Administration noted:
Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court approved the Federal Governments application to stay preliminary injunctions that had been entered against the CMS vaccine mandate. The Agency is reviewing the Supreme Courts decision. As communicated earlier this month, the Agency continues to follow Florida law and will not survey for compliance with the CMS vaccine mandate rule. Florida law requires all employers, including health care employers, to provide broad exemptions to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate
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angrychair
(8,677 posts)Start pulling federal funds starting tomorrow.
LenaBaby61
(6,972 posts)Phoenix61
(16,992 posts)Volaris
(10,266 posts)go the way desantis wants lol.
PortTack
(32,689 posts)Celerity
(43,057 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,972 posts)Response to PortTack (Reply #3)
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Cha
(296,729 posts)live in Gainesville.. and my nephew and his finance live in St Pete.. all Dems.. my sister likens it to living in a bubble.. trying their very best to protect themselves from the DeathSentence.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)deathsatan...
Celerity
(43,057 posts)liberalmediaaddict
(766 posts)becomes President.
Maru Kitteh
(28,313 posts)OmicRon DeSantis' office.
The state's healthcare agency is not tasked with enforcement of the federal CMS mandate. CMS already have the data they need to know which care facilities will require remediation or eventually, termination if they fail to comply because they already have mandatory reporting in place. Failure to report, or report accurately will also result in termination.
This reporting includes a detailed account of all staff and patient/resident vaccination status. Has for a long time now.
So they can preen and crow all they like, but it's just a show for the chickens.
Nevilledog
(50,979 posts)Might come down to hospitals saying get the damn shot & workers going on strike. Then DeSantis will have to put up or shut up.
Maru Kitteh
(28,313 posts)He is not holding the big bag of money or the data. The feds are. The end.
Nevilledog
(50,979 posts)Lovie777
(12,211 posts)Vinca
(50,236 posts)Emile
(22,449 posts)bluestarone
(16,846 posts)Where he blocked the school in Alabama!
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)This will result in all kinds of lawsuits against Florida, but de Satan doesn't foot the bill himself.