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...Every low-income working family in America must have access to basic health insurance--for themselves and for their children," says Bush. He boasts that Texas was first to let patients sue HMOs...
...head with a cleverly hinged trunk. One protesting canine had "LOVE" shaved into his flank (missed, it seems, by the PETA contingent in giant pig costumes who cruised through the throng in a red Mustang convertible). Tuesday's demonstrators primarily targeted homelessness and poverty, with the occasional chant against HMOs and for the abolition of private property. Protesters were by and large young and white, with an odd passel here and there of mostly white demonstrators pushing strollers and carrying mostly black poor and homeless children...
...could get ugly. In fact, it already has. Last fall during a congressional fight over the right to sue HMOs, the managed-care industry broadcast TV commercials showing a shark feeding as an announcer said archly, "America's richest trial lawyers are circling--and your health plan is the bait." The trial lawyers, for their part, recently targeted Senator Conrad Burns, a Montana Republican, for sponsoring a bill that would make it harder to sue asbestos manufacturers. Their ad featured a Montana woman walking in a graveyard and accusing Burns of "standing up for the people that made me sick...
...same road trip that took Scruggs to the meeting of Connecticut doctors, he dropped in on a Washington law firm to address a less-friendly group: lawyers who represent insurance companies and HMOs. He came to tell them it was in their clients' interest to settle. "One of these days, one of the industry's lawyers in court someplace like Jefferson County, Miss., is going to call headquarters and say, 'This jury just returned a $1 billion verdict,'" Scruggs said. "Just think what that will do to the company's stock...
...trying to scare his audience, it seemed to be working. One lawyer, perhaps hoping his own clients would be able to dodge the Scruggs juggernaut, asked if the wave of managed-care lawsuits would ever reach smaller HMOs. "Man, we're going to sue everybody," Scruggs said as the room filled with nervous laughter. "You have somebody in mind...