A New Jersey bill that would impose penalties on health care professionals for providing patients with “misinformation or disinformation” advanced in a vote this week in the Assembly Health Committee.
At the end of a hearing on Sept. 23, the New Jersey Assembly Health Committee approved the bill in a partisan vote, with five Democrats voting in favor, three Republicans voting no, and three other lawmakers abstaining.
According to the text of A1884, a health care professional who “engages in the dissemination of misinformation or disinformation shall be deemed to have engaged in professional misconduct” and “shall be subject to disciplinary action.”…