Word: treatments
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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...
...before Faircloth's press conference, Edwards was peddling his own health-care elixir at a panel discussion in Raleigh. He condemned "health-care bureaucrats" who overrule doctors in determining a patient's treatment, and asked, "Are we gonna put the law on the side of the patient or...leave it on the side of the big insurance companies?" In the familiar terms of Southern populism, Edwards promised to be an "independent voice" in the Senate for those who "don't have Lear jets to fly them to Washington, don't have lobbyists walking the halls of Congress...
Oregon Oregon's comprehensive Patient Protection Act forces health plans to disclose the financial incentives they offer physicians to control costs, gives consumers the right to a full appeals process if denied treatment and allows access to emergency-room care...
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...
Scientists report evidence that the immune system of HIV-infected patients might take over where drug therapies leave off. In a study of 303 patients, the number of disease-fighting T cells increased during therapy in 80% of cases--suggesting that with treatment, an HIV-ravaged immune system could repair itself...