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...Thursday President Bush met with Senate moderates, urging them to compromise - especially if it's a compromise that favors a GOP version of the bill. The President has begun a p.r. campaign for the Republican-sponsored House patients' bill of rights, which places substantial curbs on patients' ability to sue their health plans. Eventually, the House and Senate bills will merge, and the President will get a compromise bill - which he will either veto or sign into...
...House bill is starting to look like the GOP's last best hope for an outcome resembling victory: This week, the Senate defeated (by a vote of 56-43) a Republican-sponsored amendment to eliminate employer liability in health care lawsuits. "They concluded that the benefits of letting people sue the employer were much smaller than the potential cost," sponsor Phil Gramm said after the vote. The Senate also defeated (61-39) a move by Iowa's Charles Grassley to send the Democrats' bill back to committee (a classic stall tactic...
...club meeting. It helped direct me away from involvement in activities that would have ruined my life--drugs, pornography and violence. I applaud the efforts of anyone who takes the time to share moral principles with young children before they have been ensnared by the dangers of the world. SUE SPILLMAN Warrenton...
Getting a patient's bill of rights he prefers just became tougher for President Bush because he strung along his friend, G.O.P. Congressman Charlie Norwood. When Democrat John Edwards introduced such a bill in the Senate last February, the White House opposed it largely because it let patients sue their HMOs for up to $5 million. The Administration got Norwood to hold off sponsoring a nearly identical bill in the House, promising to strike a compromise. Imagine his surprise when he found that Bush aides had secretly written a bill more to their liking with G.O.P. Senator Bill Frist, limiting...
...they are eager to help recoup the $3 trillion that investors have lost since the NASDAQ tanked last spring. For retirees who fried their nest eggs or boomers who blew their kids' college tuition on margin, the road to restitution could be as easy as dialing 877-CAN-I-SUE (where you'll reach some New York City lawyers...