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...future of the state's health care policy is also on the ballot. Question Five proposes a patient bill of rights to require insurance companies to give certain protections to customers in Massachusetts...
...knows how to handle a speculum," says a patient admiringly of Dr. Sullivan Travis (Richard Gere), gynecologist to the pampered ladies of Dallas. He has a lot to handle in this derisive comedy. His wife (Farrah Fawcett) goes nuts and naked in a mall fountain; his clients, to a woman, are idle and self-absorbed. To Altman and screenwriter Anne Rapp, women's problems are the result of their having way too much time on their manicured hands. The film's blithe misogyny soon becomes wearying; it refuses to see women as more than the sum of their private parts...
Gore stated support for a Patient's Bill of Rights, saying the situation has "gotten completely out of hand...
Meanwhile, the governor lit up the "Inaccuracy" button when he talked up the Texan Patient's Bill Of Rights. "You can't gag a doctor," he claimed. "False Statement!" flashed on the screen. Perhaps the machine was being too literal. I would think it pretty tough to stuff a handkerchief in the mouth of the average physician. Incidentally, every time Gore said the words "Dingell-Norwood," his "Cognitive Level Indicator" spiked up 4 percent. Mmmm...
Still, even the most patient parents may not be automatically rewarded with the liberation of their closets or garages. A decade after their childhood room has become a study, grownup kids in their 30s or 40s may lovingly rummage through their old belongings but still refuse to take them from their resting place...