
What We're Reading: Patients, Physicians Will Face a Number of Hurdles Under Aid-in-Dying Bill
What we're reading, May 5, 2016: obtaining life-ending medications under California's new law won't be easy come June 9; Arizona is now the only state to not participate in CHIP; struggling insurers propose big premiums increases on Obamacare plans.
When California’s aid-in-dying legislation take effects in June, the process for terminally ill individuals to get medications to end their lives won’t be simple.
Arizona has chosen not to restore the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program, making it the only state to not participate in the program. The state’s House voted to restart the program with the caveat that the state can suspend it if fewer federal dollars came in, and the Senate let the bill die due to concerns about the provision,
As some insurers struggle in the Affordable Care marketplaces, they are proposing big premium increases.
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