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.
Insurance companies, in order to deny coverage for anything, would have to prove “by clear and convincing evidence that the medication or procedure was unnecessary or would not result in disability, death, amputation, permanent disfigurement or the loss or reduction of any bodily function.”
A number of critics took issue with the initiative, primarily because it was being named after a murderer.
“Well that’s f****ing disgusting and insane!” Guy Benson posted.
“This is like calling a pro-abortion bill the ‘Kermit Gosnell Act.’ It’s deranged,” another said.
“Using a [murderers] name to glorify a bill is on another level,” Chef Andrew Gruel commented, later adding, “*allegedly.”
Fox News’ Jimmy Failla posted a video blasting the initiative, saying, “We don’t name legislation after murderers. If we did, we’d have a marriage act named after O.J. Simpson.”
He went on to say that the only thing that really made any sense was to name legislation “after the victims of the thing you’re trying to fix.”
