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...could the Republicans end up settling for less than last year's opening bid from Clinton after an orgy of breast beating over balanced budgets? Long ago, in a fiscal blueprint that now seems far, far away, Clinton unveiled his first 1995 budget to a chorus of groans. Leaving the deficit at $200 billion, the President offered a five-year package of $140 billion in spending cuts (a reduction of 1.6% in federal spending), $60 billion of which would pay for tax cuts. Gingrich called the plan "very, very disappointing," and it was laughed out of town by his fellow...
...fact was, some oncologists at the meeting had done transplants for advanced breast cancer. "We have a protocol to treat breast cancer," UCLA's Rosen said. The panel, he cautioned, had agreed only that such transplants should not be covered as a general rule. "That didn't mean we necessarily have all agreed that this is a worthless thing to be doing," he said. "I think that could be a real problem...
...late August, less than two months after she had signed with Health Net, Christy discovered a lump in her left breast...
...Christy underwent a bone scan, which showed her cancer had spread; her disease was now classified as Stage IV metastatic breast cancer. Given the standard therapies available, it was a death sentence, but her oncologist, Dr. Mahesh Gupta, warmly assured her there was hope. He recommended she consider a bone-marrow transplant and, in a breach of Health Net procedure, skipped the usual channels for making referrals and arranged a consultation with a physician he knew, Dr. Robert McMillan, an oncologist at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla. Christy's sister, living in Colorado, had urged...
When Dr. Jones examined Christy deMeurers, he believed a transplant could help her. "The available proof for its efficacy in breast cancer was at least equivalent to many other procedures that we do every day," he says. As early as 1990, even Health Net had found evidence that bone-marrow transplants might become a standard weapon against breast cancer. That year the company's then chief medical officer, Dr. Leonard Knapp, ordered a study by Technology Assessment Group of San Francisco to evaluate the treatment. The report, however, didn't reach the conclusion he had hoped for. It found that...