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...moved into Week Two in the long and contentious battle over a patients' bill of rights, with no end in sight. Wednesday and 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...
...plum job of top dog in the Justice Department's criminal division has gone to Michael Chertoff, a former U.S. Attorney who served as GOP Sen. Alfonse D'Amato's chief counsel in his Whitewater investigation. Ted Olson is now solicitor general, having spent part of the last 8 years helping out with the American Spectator's zealous prosecution of Bill Clinton -even as his wife, Barbara Olson, who used to work for Dan Burton, appeared on a fleet of TV talk shows defending Ken Starr's investigation of Clinton. Brett Kavanaugh, who used to work on Starr's independent...
...TIME.com: What is the most important difference between the bill you support and the GOP-sponsored version...
...open to catastrophic legal costs and raise the price of insurance premiums, forcing employers to drop coverage. In the end, the White House argues, the unlimited-damages approach could leave millions of Americans without insurance. (Democrats contend their plan would cost just 37 cents a month more than the GOP plan...
...critical to the Republican version to cap federal court damages at $500,000? And why does the GOP version keep suits out of state courts...