“We were really sending a message. Arizona is not going to be involved in this in any way, in any way, in form,” state Rep. Leo Biasiucci said.
On February 20, Arizona House passed a bill aimed at taking stance against Beijing’s systematic forced organ collection crime. The bill is currently entering the state Senate.
The bill allows insurance companies such as subscription contracts, healthcare services organizations, disability insurance companies, and state Medicaid agencies to limit or deny coverage for patients who have chosen to receive an organ transplant from China. It’s there.
“We were really sending a message. Arizona is not going to participate in this in any way, shape, shape or form,” said Sen. Leo Biasiucci, the bill’s lead sponsor, in February. I mentioned it at the Home Health and Human Services meeting. .
Biasiucci decided to split the measure into two when it reintroduced the proposal this year.
He described the anti-forced organ collection bill as “simple – black and white.”
Kelly Curry, a human rights lawyer and former U.S. ambassador to the US Economic Council, joined Biasiucci at a meeting on February 3rd.
“Arizona taxpayers should not subsidize this creepy form of medical tourism that supports and subsidizes oppression, or in any way encourage the most vicious form of abuse,” she said. Ta.
“You’re basically buying organs that are in demand,” Curry said. “You can schedule an appointment, pay cash, then have the surgery and get it done.”
Prosecutors said the doctors arranged for at least 10 Taiwanese patients to undergo illegal kidney or liver transplant surgery in two Chinese cities.