Word: righting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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PLAN: Give uninsured families a $2,000 tax credit to help purchase insurance. Pass a patients' bill of rights with a restricted right to sue HMOs. Turn Medicare into an insurance subsidy, giving seniors money for private insurance and prescription-drug coverage...
IMPACT: A patients' bill with such a limited right to sue keeps lawsuits from driving costs up but leaves patients little recourse if HMOs don't play fair. Privatizing Medicare will help cure its long-term financial troubles, but it risks creating a class system: full coverage for wealthy and low-income seniors, while those in the middle struggle to afford plans with prescription coverage...
IMPACT: Abortion will most likely remain a constitutional right, and future legislative restrictions on abortion could be struck down. Affirmative action will probably remain legal, and the court will be more likely to recognize homosexual rights. Federal power may be allowed to broaden, permitting laws that tighten gun control, expand environmental protections and monitor food and drug production...
PLAN: Insure more low- and middle-income children through the Children's Health Insurance Program, and allow CHIP parents to buy subsidized coverage. Pass a patients' bill of rights with the right to sue. Add a prescription benefit to Medicare, and lock away $435 billion to ensure that it stays solvent...
...armed Bush with something Republicans have not recently been wise enough to bring along to the battle: tax cuts for those "real people." When the plan was released, it was criticized by Forbes for not being bold enough and by Gore for being unfair. "I must be doing something right," said Bush...