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...maneuvered through Congress together. But if one week is a long time in politics, two weeks is an eternity. The Odd Couple has split up, because Washington has resumed its four-year war over the patients' bill of rights. The issue: How much power should government give people to sue and second-guess the insurance companies and health-maintenance organizations that make life-and-death decisions about medical care...
...shouldn't have been surprised. Bush, like Kennedy, wants more protections for patients, including more access to emergency rooms, specialty care and clinical trials. But he wants no part of provisions in the Kennedy bill that would allow aggrieved patients to sue HMOs in state court and win jury awards of up to $5 million. Conservative Republicans in Congress were appalled at the thought of a Kennedy-Bush compromise on the legislation, but they needn't have worried. Bush wasn't eager to strike any deal that would burnish the reputation of McCain, his bitter opponent in the Republican presidential...
...customer for planes. The commission sympathized with GE's competitors and asked the company to make disposals of assets way beyond anything that Welch and his successor as CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, deemed reasonable. GE hasn't formally walked away, in part to assuage Honeywell stockholders who might otherwise sue, in part because the full commission has yet to endorse Monti's view, and in part because hope springs eternal. But few now bet the deal will go through...
...White House meeting last Tuesday. With Democrats in control of the Senate and moderate Republicans lining up with them, passage of a generous patients'-rights bill was inevitable. Pressed by Hughes and others, Bush threw his support behind a House alternative giving patients a limited right to sue HMOs in state court--something he had long opposed. "This legislation...will make a difference in people's lives," he enthused at a photo op staged by Hughes. By Friday night, when the Senate passed its bill 59-36, the veto threat was still the official position, but White House aides were...
...Democrats' plan, sponsored by Senators Edward Kennedy, John Edwards and Republican John McCain, would allow mistreated, misdiagnosed or neglected patients to sue their health plans in both state and federal court, because, the sponsors argue, patients should be able to skirt the long waiting times and bureaucracy plaguing the federal judicial system. The bill also allows wronged patients to receive unlimited punitive damages in state court (unless state law dictates otherwise) and awards in federal court of up to $5 million. This plan also permits employees to name employers as defendants in insurance-related lawsuits...