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Advocates propose three changes to Vermont s Aid in Dying law
Bill expected to be discussed in Senate committee in coming weeks Share Updated: 6:55 PM EDT Apr 7, 2021
Bill expected to be discussed in Senate committee in coming weeks Share Updated: 6:55 PM EDT Apr 7, 2021
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Show Transcript ADVOCATES ARE NOW HOPING PROPOSED CHANGES. CAN GIVE PEOPLE WHO WANT IT. MORE ACCESS. BEFORE IT S TOO LATE. BETSY WALKERMAN. KNOWS A THING OR TWO ABOUT ACT 39. OTHERWISE KNOWN AS VERMONT S AID IN DYING LAW. DURING THE TIME OF ITS PASSAGE IN 2013. IT DREW EMOTIONAL DEBATE ON BOTH SIDES. SINCE THEN, OFFICIALS SAY AT LEAST 86 VERMONTERS HAVE QUALIFIED TO USE THE LAW. WHICH ALLOWS PEOPLE WHO ARE TERMINALLY-ILL TO BE ABLE TO GET A LETHAL DOSE OF SELF- ADMINISTERED MEDICATION PRESCRIBED BY A DOCTOR. BUT RECENTLY, SOME SHORTFALLS HAVE COME TO LIGHT. WALKERMAN HEADS THE NONPROFIT PATIENT CHOICES VERMONT. WHICH CON rNECTS PEOPLE INTERES
we raise natureraised farms® on a 100% vegetarian diet with no antibiotics ever. look for natureraised farms® chicken at your local store. i m back with our two doctors. from a patient s point of view, clearly if you don t have insurance now and you re going to be offered insurance that you can afford along with government subsidies to help you get it, you are better off. what does it do in terms of putting 40 million new people into the marketplace for doctors? what does it do in temperature of patient choices from their voint point of view? it doesn t put 40 million new people in the marketplace.
off. what does it do in terms of putting 40 million new people into the marketplace for doctors and what does it do in terms of patient choices, from their point of view, what s in it? first of all, it doesn t put 40 million new people into the marketplace. they re in the marketplace now. it takes them out of the emergency room and keeps them from getting really sick before they go get care. the people that are most opposed to it, over 55-year-old people who have been laid off and can t get hired because nobody will take their risk and personal insurance pool. that s a problem. those people will benefit disproportionately. the other people who will benefit, which i think this is an unintended consequence of the law small businesses. they ll dump their employees into the exchange. that s a good thing. john mccain proposed it in his 2008 campaign to separate employment from health insurance. that s something the