This is a very serious issue & one that has got lost in a lot of the coverage about the healthcare (and general inequality) related issues around covid. Am happy to support this bill.
Covid has exposed so many deficiencies in health care as a profession that it emphasizes that efforts to expand access based on financial considerations like Scott, others and I did in 2017, and like is still the focus in real life is an essential first, it is still just that, a first step. Questions of practices in the industry come up and questions of protocols and other processes that determine how and who to treat as well.
One could argue that far more than just those with learning disabilities but more generalized disabilities and even mental illness probably all fall into the same boat of worse Covid outcomes for a variety of factors.
Then when it comes of course to the matter of DNRs, are probably much more likely to be abused as well.
