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jmowreader

(53,132 posts)
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 05:13 PM 12 hrs ago

Not Spurious News: Idaho Legislature rejects bill that could have banned healthcare in the state!

https://idahocapitalsun.com/briefs/idaho-committee-rejects-bill-to-repeal-childhood-vaccine-requirements/

The bill in question: https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2026/legislation/H0808.pdf

Here's the paragraph in question:
(2) "Medical intervention" means a medical procedure, treatment, device, drug, injection, vaccine, immunization, medication, or medical action taken to diagnose, prevent, or cure a disease or alter the health or biological function of a person.

This bill says in one long stretch of legislative garbage that no entity in Idaho can refuse to do business with you if you have or haven't had a medical intervention.

This means, among other things...

1. A restaurant can't keep you out just because you have typhoid.
2. A school can't tell you to get rid of your child's lice.
3. A brothel can't refuse to let you have unprotected sex with their employees just because you have syphilis.

This bill is bad enough that even Republicans are saying "now wait a damn minute!"
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Not Spurious News: Idaho Legislature rejects bill that could have banned healthcare in the state! (Original Post) jmowreader 12 hrs ago OP
WTF? malaise 12 hrs ago #1
Who in the heck thought this up? Do they even have any functional brain cells? Good grief. SWBTATTReg 12 hrs ago #2
The article has names jmowreader 11 hrs ago #3

SWBTATTReg

(26,239 posts)
2. Who in the heck thought this up? Do they even have any functional brain cells? Good grief.
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 05:22 PM
12 hrs ago

jmowreader

(53,132 posts)
3. The article has names
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 06:08 PM
11 hrs ago

I read the website of the person who wrote the bill...she doesn't seem to have any functional brain cells.

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