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SEC. 1553. PROHIBITION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION ON ASSISTED SUICIDE.
(a) IN GENERAL.The Federal Government, and any State or
local government or health care provider that receives Federal
financial assistance under this Act (or under an amendment made
by this Act) or any health plan created under this Act (or under
an amendment made by this Act), may not subject an individual
or institutional health care entity to discrimination on the basis
that the entity does not provide any health care item or service
furnished for the purpose of causing, or for the purpose of assisting
in causing, the death of any individual, such as by assisted suicide,
euthanasia, or mercy killing.
(b) DEFINITION.In this section, the term health care entity
includes an individual physician or other health care professional,
a hospital, a provider-sponsored organization, a health maintenance
organization, a health insurance plan, or any other kind of health
care facility, organization, or plan.
(c) CONSTRUCTION AND TREATMENT OF CERTAIN SERVICES.
Nothing in subsection (a) shall be construed to apply to, or to
affect, any limitation relating to
(1) the withholding or withdrawing of medical treatment
or medical care;
(2) the withholding or withdrawing of nutrition or hydration;
(3) abortion; or
(4) the use of an item, good, benefit, or service furnished
for the purpose of alleviating pain or discomfort, even if such
use may increase the risk of death, so long as such item,
good, benefit, or service is not also furnished for the purpose
of causing, or the purpose of assisting in causing, death, for
any reason.
(d) ADMINISTRATION.The Office for Civil Rights of the Department
of Health and Human Services is designated to receive complaints
of discrimination based on this section.
SEC. 1554. ACCESS TO THERAPIES.
I don’t know what it means either.
The fist part of the section would seem to prohibit discrimination against entities that prohibit assisted suicide. Why would this need to be codified, do you think?