While most headlines during the 2024 election have been focused on the presidential and Congressional elections, a number of states have healthcare-related measures on the ballot this year. Here are the key ones to watch.
Proposition 35: Would permanently authorize a tax on managed care organizations based on monthly enrollees, which is set to expire in 2026, and require revenues to be used for increased Medi-Cal programs.
Amendment 79: Would create a right to abortion in the state constitution and allows the use of public funds for abortion.
Assisted Reproductive Healthcare Advisory Question: Would advise state officials on whether medically assisted reproductive treatments, including in vitro fertilization, should be covered by any health insurance plan in Illinois that provides full coverage to pregnancy benefits.
Question 2 (Science and Technology Research and Commercialization Bond Issue):
Amendment 3: Would amend the Missouri Constitution to provide the right for reproductive freedom, which is defined as "the right to make and carry out decisions about all matters relating to reproductive healthcare, including but not limited to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, birth control, abortion care, miscarriage care, and respectful birthing conditions." Providing that the state legislature may enact laws that regulate abortion after fetal viability, which is defined in the initiative as "in the good faith judgment of a treating healthcare professional and based on the particular facts of the case, there is a significant likelihood of the fetus’s sustained survival outside the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical measures."
Amendment 1: Would amend the West Virginia Constitution to prohibit people from participating in "the practice of medically assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing of a person."
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