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FIRST ON FOX: New Mexico is facing possible legal action from an organization that aims to overturn the state’s controversial health care rationing policies, which allegedly uses skin color as a basis to decide whether to provide treatment.
America First Legal Fund, a conservative group, has issued a warning to the state of New Mexico to cease all discriminatory practices regarding COVID-19 health care. The legal group has threatened with a lawsuit if the state does not comply.
“We sent a legal warning and letter of potential legal action to the state of New Mexico, who has likewise issued discriminatory COVID-rationing policies. This is something that is a core mission of ours,” said Stephen Miller, former adviser to President Trump and director at America First Legal Fund.
President Biden during a conference call on Sept. 17, 2021.
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TUCKER CARLSON: IT’S TERRIFYING THAT AMERICANS ARE BEING DENIED COVID TREATMENT BASED ON RACE
New Mexico’s policy is not a new one — the same race-based care rationing has been implemented and overturned in Minnesota, New York and elsewhere.
“[New York] issued a decree rationing COVID medicine on the basis of race, where two people otherwise medically identical, but one was Caucasian and one was not, the Caucasian would not be able to access the medical treatment,” Miller said. “This is unthinkable in America.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a recommendation for race-based rationing earlier this month, writing, “Race and ethnicity are risk markers for other underlying conditions that affect health, including socioeconomic status, access to health care, and exposure to the virus related to occupation, e.g., frontline, essential, and critical infrastructure workers.”
In addition, the Food and Drug Administration issued guidance stating “other medical conditions or factors (for example, race or ethnicity) may also place individual…
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