In an amicus brief submitted on January 28, 2025 to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Compassion & Choices (C&C) led a coalition of nonprofits and labor unions in defending the constitutionality of Oregon’s Health Care Market Oversight Program (HCMO). HCMO is a program designed to regulate large-scale healthcare system transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions. The brief argued that upholding HCMO is in the public interest because it promotes and preserves a wide range of critical healthcare interests, including:
Compassion & Choices emphasized its concern about the potential impact on access to end-of-life care if the program is overturned. HCMO has already successfully conditioned multiple mergers and acquisitions on maintaining the availability of end-of-life care. Eliminating this program will significantly undermine access to such care.
Compassion & Choices is committed to ensuring patients have access to quality care and the full range of options at the end-of-life. To learn more about our legal advocacy work, please visit our Legal Advocacy webpage.
*Amicus curiae is Latin for “friend of the court.” Amicus briefs are commonly submitted by anyone wanting to make a point relating to a court case that the litigating parties are not addressing.
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