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...executive editor at Peterson's, a Princeton, N.J., education- and career- products publishing company that puts out the annual Peterson's Guide to Distance Learning Programs. Peterson's latest figures show that U.S. higher-education institutions offer distance-learning courses to more than 7 million students, according to spokeswoman Sue Brooks...
...passed an IRS-reform bill, a few million taxpayers locked in battle with the dreaded agency may soon have a fair fight. Under the law, the burden of proof in many cases would fall to the government instead of the accused, and mistreated taxpayers would have the right to sue the IRS for damages. In addition, unlucky divorces caught holding the bag wouldn't always be responsible for the dubious accounting of their former spouses...
Should you have the right to sue your HMO or health plan over improper medical treatment? Yes, say the Democrats, because without the right to litigate there's no way for patients to hold health plans accountable for their decisions. No, says the GOP -- the right to sue would simply divert money away from health care and into the pockets of wealthy trial lawyers. "The issue of litigation is the primary difference between the parties' competing health plan reform bills," says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty. "This being an election year, they're going to fight this one down...
...with less than two months of lawmaking left before Congress adjourns to run for re-election, there is also plenty to fight about. Democrats are firm that patients be allowed to sue their health plans, an idea that Republicans and their business constituents find heretical. The House Republican bill contains a few land mines of its own, such as medical savings accounts (a risky experiment, Democrats say, and a sop to G.O.P. campaign contributors) and limits on malpractice awards (which the Democrats and their trial-lawyer allies warn would prevent the injured from recovering what they are due). Says Republican...
Texas Texas, like Oregon, has its own bill of rights, and recently decided to make all HMO complaint records public. Texas is the only state in the U.S. to allow consumers to sue insurance companies if they do not use "ordinary care" in denying or delaying payment for treatment. The law is currently being challenged in court by Aetna and other insurance companies...