With a health-care executive and a medical malpractice defense attorney cheering him on, Gov. Ron DeSantis appeared Thursday in Southwest Florida to announce his veto of HB 6017.

The measure would have repealed a 30-year-old provision of Florida’s Wrongful Death Act that makes survivors of adult children and their parents ineligible for non-economic damages in medical negligence claims.

“In my judgment, it would lead to higher costs for Floridians, it would lead to less access to care for Floridians,” DeSantis said. “We need more as it is now, the state is growing, it’s not shrinking.”

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