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Managed Care
July 2001
Michael Levin-Epstein |
Tilt of Senate to Democrats Speeded Debate on Patients' Rights The Senate debate over the Patients' Bill of Rights made for great theater, but was the outcome ever in doubt?   |
Managed Care
March 2001
Michael Levin-Epstein |
Managed Care Again Seen on Capitol Hill As Ripe for Reform Of the many health care issues circulating in the nation's capital, managed care reform is back as the biggest of them all... |
Salon.com
October 14, 1999
Dawn MacKeen |
Woe is HMO Proponents of liability legislation argue that the only way to change managed care's behavior is to threaten it with lawsuits. |
Managed Care
November 1999
Allen Briskin & Gerry Hinkley |
HMO Liability Battleground Moving to Courts, Statehouse The adage "all politics is local" may, in the end, become the motto that sinks ERISA. HMO executives should assume protection will evaporate. |
Managed Care
August 2000
Michael Levin-Epstein |
Will Fifth Circuit's Decision Spur Action on Patient Rights? The recent Fifth Circuit Court decision on Texas's statute allowing patients to sue HMOs for denial of physician-recommended care is helping to clarify where state and federal interests in patient rights lie -- and what Congress could do to spell out those interests. |
Salon.com
June 13, 2000
David McGuire |
Immune from liability The Supreme Court blocks a potentially important legal path for people who want to sue HMOs. Now, the spotlight is on Congress. |
Salon.com
June 13, 2001
Jake Tapper |
Health showdown looms on Capitol Hill The patients bill of rights shapes up as the first true battle between Bush and the newly aligned Congress... |
Managed Care
November 1999 |
Reform Bill's OK Prompts Clashes, Dire Predictions Not surprisingly, the House of Representatives' 275--161 vote affirming the Norwood-Dingell health care reform bill prompted wailing and gnashing of teeth from the insurance industry.... |
Home Theater
January 29, 2009 |
House Delays DTV Transition Delay The House of Representatives voted yesterday to keep the DTV transition running on schedule, defeating legislation that would have allowed some stations to delay the transition from February 17 to June 12. |
U.S. CPSC
December 19, 2007 |
US Consumer Product Safety Commission Acting Chairman Nancy Nord Applauds House Vote on Landmark Consumer Product Safety Legislation The members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are congratulated for their leadership and hard work on significant product safety legislation. |
Insurance & Technology
March 22, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
Insurance Industry: Healthcare Reform Fails to Address Costs Health insurance carriers praise coverage, lament cost. Distributor association expresses disappointment on cost to small businesses and procedural liberties taken by Congress to pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. |
Salon.com
October 18, 2000
Jake Tapper |
Gored The two candidates share a podium -- but the vice president knocks Bush off center stage... |
AFP eWire
August 2, 2004 |
CARE Act's Fate on Hold Until September The U.S. Congress adjourned for its August recess before taking action on a key tax bill, leaving the fate of the Charity Aid, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Act unknown until after Labor Day, Sept. 6, 2004. |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
Howard Gleckman |
This Medicare Reform Is No Cure The theory: The shift will improve treatment and save taxpayers money, helping to rein in ballooning Medicare costs while offsetting the expense of the drug benefit. Those are laudable goals. Unfortunately, Congress isn't likely to achieve them. |
Geotimes
May 2006
Steven Quane |
The Rocket Docket: Legislating Science Out of Public Policy Rhetorically, little resistance exists for U.S. policy-makers to use science fairly and justly in creating the laws of the land. Procedurally, however, that is certainly not the case. |
Entrepreneur
August 2005
Jane Easter Bahls |
Action Sacked A new law aims to protect you from class-action suits. Under the new law, all class-action lawsuits with plaintiffs from more than one state will have to be filed in federal courts, which tend to be less sympathetic than state courts to these suits. |
Food Engineering
June 4, 2006 |
Regulatory Watch California and several other states that have mandated strict food product labeling requirements are taking their fight against federal uniform standards to the US Senate. |
