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When Davis signed a head-turning bipartisan health-care-reform package into law last week--one that, among other things, expands coverage to include breast cancer and mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, creates a panel to review denial of coverage and gives patients the right to sue HMOs that don't make "the health of the patient the bottom line"--he established what could become a national standard by which to judge reform in this area...
...Mathers] was good," Harvard Coach Sue Caples said. "But we didn't help ourselves by trying to shoot through...
Bloom writes that only a small percentage of Americans would be affected by the Patients' Bill of Rights, which would give patients the right to sue their managed care providers and to appeal claims to a third party...
...COACH: Sue Caples...
Could this be the real Clinton legacy - fiddling while Congress self-immolates? The debate over patients? rights hit the Hill with a fury Wednesday as three separate bills - each allowing patients to sue their HMOs for uncovered medical costs, but in varying degrees - added to the general legislative tangle that has been the story of Capitol Hill this summer and fall. Things got complicated Tuesday when House GOP leaders did an about-face, gun-control-style, and sought to undercut a popular right-to-sue bill with a watered-down version of their own. That bill had Democratic backing...