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Advocates back bill to bar insurers from discriminating against living organ donors
Summary
Advocates and transplant recipients urged the Joint Committee on Financial Services to pass bills that would prohibit insurers from taking an individual’s status as a living organ donor into account for life, long-term and disability insurance.
The Joint Committee on Financial Services heard testimony supporting House Bill 1248 and Senate Bill 727, bills that would prohibit life, long-term disability and disability insurers from discriminating against people solely on the basis that they are living organ donors.
John Hoffman, senior director of state policy and advocacy for the American Kidney Fund, told the committee…
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