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The U.S. House gave final passage Thursday to a budget bill that will cut federal Medicaid spending by an estimated $1 trillion over 10 years.
SEIU Healthcare, which represents more than 91,000 health care workers in Illinois, Indiana and Missouri, says Chicago's ...
A bill that would legalize assisted suicide in Massachusetts made it passed the first step in the legislative process this ...
Gov. JB Pritzker is signing into law healthcare bills aimed to lower prescription costs and expand healthcare access to ...
New York’s Democratic-controlled Legislature passed the Medical Aid in Dying Act on June 9, but opponents — including ...
K im Leadbeater, the Labour MP who came top in the private members’ bill ballot last year, and was therefore given a chance of getting her own law onto the statute book, is “confident” that ...
Kim Leadbeater, the MP behind the assisted dying bill, has said she is "confident" MPs will back the legislation when it returns for its final stage in the House of Commons on Friday.
Dame Esther, a staunch supporter of Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, has been a prominent voice in the conversation on assisted dying. Dame Esther Rantzen has been an ...
If the Bill was to pass later this year that would mean it might not be until 2029, potentially coinciding with the end of this Government’s parliament, that assisted dying was being offered ...
In the early twentieth century, New York law recognized suicide as a “ grave public wrong ” and declared attempted suicide a felony. Last week, the State Senate passed a bill that would effectively ...
The bill was introduced just a day before the session ended May 31. Rep. Jay Hoffman, D-Belleville, who sponsored the bill, did not respond to a request for comment.
The Bill is back in the Commons for a debate and major vote which would see it either pass to the House of Lords or fall. MPs voted 330 to 275, majority 55, to approve the Bill at second reading ...