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...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...
...Slav majority, such as Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski, continue to sound off about a military solution even as they participate in on-again-off-again talks with ethnic-Albanian political parties. Those talks are a long way from conclusion, having briefly collapsed this week over ethnic-Albanian demands for veto power over major government decisions and Macedonian Slav reluctance to accept radical constitutional changes. But even as those talks continued in Skopje's cavernous parliament buildings, the government took delivery of eight new attack aircraft -including four helicopters - from Ukraine, doubling the size of its air force, and further draining...
...problems getting to a solution, both sides think after years of failure, a deal might be possible. Bush has threatened to veto the more liberal forms of legislation, but those who are now at the table with him know that's just an opening bid. Bush is willing to shave away the details to get a result. And this is a result that happens to be wildly popular, with as many as 79% of Republican voters telling pollsters they support a patient's bill of rights. The HMO lobby disputes that figure but most Republicans see a bigger reality...
...Last week, President Bush threatened to veto the Kennedy-McCain bill, which provides patients with a great deal of leeway in suing their HMOs, casting his lot instead with a more HMO-friendly version sponsored by GOP Senator Bill Frist. It sounds like a recipe for stalemate, but after years of arguing and finger-pointing over their failure to compromise, Capitol Hill lawmakers can scarcely afford to let a chance for indemnification pass them by. White House observers say Bush is open to negotiations...
...will slow down the schedule for considering judicial nominees to give Democrats more time to stockpile ammunition against conservative ones. Next week Daschle plans to bring up a patient's bill of rights measure that Kennedy has sponsored with Senators John Edwards and John McCain. Bush has threatened to veto it. Says Joe Biden, who heads the Foreign Relations Committee: "Bush can't treat us like the Texas legislature anymore...