As the sun set outside of Gulfport Memorial Hospital in early December, just a few days after a Louisiana federal court temporarily blocked a requirement that health-care facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs have their staff fully vaccinated against COVID-19, a group of triumphant anti-mandate advocates gathered in prayer.
They thanked God for the court’s decision, for (medical) freedom and prayed for their enemy by default: hospital administrations that would have had to enforce the mandate or risk shutting down with the loss of the federal insurance money.
