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New Jersey’s Senate Health Committee Advances High-Profile Healthcare Shield Bill as Emotional Statehouse Hearing Reveals Deep Political and Cultural Divisions

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One of the most politically charged healthcare debates unfolding anywhere in New Jersey this year intensified dramatically this week as the New Jersey Senate Health Committee voted 5–2 along party lines to advance Senate Bill 2260, a sweeping healthcare “shield law” designed to...

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