Word: hmos
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...appears that events may have overtaken Charlie Norwood. For more than six years, the Georgia Republican was the standard-bearer in any debate over a patients? bill of rights, pushing for an expanded right to sue negligent HMOs in state and federal court...
...Hill shorthand), and has been politicking since his return from Europe for the GOP alternative (sponsored by Kentucky Republican Ernest Fletcher). The Fletcher bill departs from its rival in two primary areas: Capping the amount of liability claims and limiting the venues in which patients can sue their HMOs...
...Room of the West Wing on the morning of June 21, she listened with pursed lips as Nick Calio, the White House legislative director, insisted that President Bush should threaten to veto the patients' bill of rights--legislation aimed at protecting people from the bureaucratic whims of profit-driven HMOs. The bill is badly flawed, Calio argued, and the V word is the only way to force Congress to make it more to Bush's liking. Hughes jumped into the fray. "Once we say veto," she replied, "that's all anyone's going to hear." To Hughes, the counselor responsible...
...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...
...line and peeled off enough moderate Republicans to defeat hostile Republican amendments by comfortable margins. The only compromises Democrats were willing to make were on their provision making employers liable in some civil suits. On other issues, such as adding tax breaks to the bill or curbing the liability HMOs faced, the Democrats refused to budge and easily defeated Republican attempts to change the bill. The Kennedy-McCain-Edwards bill guarantees patients that their insurer will pay for emergency care, visits to specialists such as pediatricians, minimum hospital stays after mastectomies and costs associated with clinical trials. The bill gives...