Doctors at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals across the country could refuse to take care of single veterans and Democrats under new hospital guidelines imposed in the aftermath of an executive order by President Donald Trump, The Guardian reported on Monday.

Although medical staff must treat veterans regardless of race, color, religion, and sex, and all veterans remain entitled to treatment, the new rules indicate that individual workers are now free to decline to care to patients based on personal characteristics not explicitly forbidden by federal law, according to The Guardian.

Until the recent changes, the bylaws of VA hospitals said that medical staff could not discriminate against patients “on the basis of race, age, color, sex, religion, national origin, politics, marital status or disability in any employment matter.” Now, several of those items – including “national origin,” “politics,” and “marital status” – have been removed from that list.

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