This is rich: Assembypersons Patty Berg and Lloyd Levine, desperately trying to save their misbegotten assisted suicide bill, have “gutted” a bipartisan bill (AB 651)that passed the Assembly to help poor people on Medi-CAL (Medicaid), and replaced it with their otherwise dead-as-a-doornail bill. So, the poor get slighted in favor of hastened death. How apt.
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