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Disability advocates urge passage of H.1360/S.869 to ban discriminatory medical care and DNR pressure
Summary
Persons with disabilities, family members and disability rights groups testified in favor of H.1360/S.869 to forbid deprioritizing or denying care based on disability and to prohibit coercion into do‑not‑resuscitate orders and discriminatory metrics in treatment decisions.
The Joint Committee on Health Care Financing heard more than a dozen people testify in support of H.1360 and S.869, bills described by advocates as needed protections against disability‑based discrimination in health care.
Senate Chair Cindy Friedman introduced the item and called forward witnesses who described repeated instances in which people with disabilities said they were deprioritized, dismissed or pressured in clinical settings. Cody Rooney, testifying in person, said health care workers “look to whoever walks in with me or asks now that I go along as if someone came with me for a rush hour to treat me even though I'm a capable” and…
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