Group starts campaign against aid-in-dying

The Patients Rights Action Fund, a group fighting against the expansion of aid-in-dying laws, started a video campaign Wednesday urging lawmakers to oppose legislation that allows terminally ill patients to obtain prescriptions for life-ending medications.

The online video features Dr. Brian Callister, an internist and medical professor at the University of Nevada Medical School, who said that insurers refused to cover life-saving procedures for two out-of-state patients who were not terminally ill but offered instead to cover medication for aid-in-dying.