The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri today granted a preliminary injunction preventing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from enforcing its vaccine mandate rule in Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming pending a full judicial review of the mandate’s legality.
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Deadline to be fully vaxed has passed so I guess that UHC has decided not to enforce vax for those that had exemption denied..?
Too bad UHG like most American corporations are "at will". Free pass to mandate what they want. Just like UHG grants you PTO time, you do not earn it. That's why they don''t pay it out when you leave.
The other group of states Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia lawsuit granted nationwide injunction yesterday.
The court found that the 10 states filing this lawsuit were likely to succeed in establishing that the CMS vaccine mandate is arbitrary or capricious and that “Congress must ‘speak clearly when authorizing an agency to exercise powers of vast economic and political significance.’” Since Congress has not spoken—much less clearly spoken—on this issue, the CMS rule cannot be enforced, the court reasoned.
The court also made the following observations:
[T]he overwhelming lack of evidence likely shows CMS had insufficient evidence to mandate vaccination on the wide range of facilities that it did. Looking even beyond the evidence deficiencies relating to the specific facilities covered, the lack of data regarding vaccination status and transmissibility—in general—is concerning