California residents may soon have the chance to vote on a measure that would restrict insurance companies from denying coverage — an initiative named after the man who gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a New York City street.
The proposed “Luigi Mangione Act” has already found its way to the California attorney general’s desk, according to local outlet KTLA. If enacted, it would then be illegal for insurance companies to “delay, deny or modify any medical procedure or medication” prescribed by California doctors if failure to implement such treatments could result in “disability, death, amputation, permanent disfigurement, loss or reduction of any bodily function.”
The measure would also limit modifications to such treatments to licensed physicians, and make it illegal for anyone other than another licensed physician to review or modify them.
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