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Salon.com February 7, 2001 Jake Tapper & Alicia Montgomery	Patients bill alive, for now The "bill of rights" legislation gets a boost from a bipartisan team -- while the White House plots its downfall...
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.
Managed Care May 2001 Michael Levin-Epstein	Prescription Drug Talk Cooled Off Faster Than a Texas Thunderstorm Medicare reform -- and especially prescription drug benefits within Medicare -- no longer appears to be the burning issue it once was on Capitol Hill. The culprits: priorities and money...
Managed Care October 2000 Michael Levin-Epstein	How We Got It Anyway: The Clinton Health Plan Never Died As a whole, the plan unceremoniously crashed and burned. But it still frames state and national debate about health policy, thus affecting the evolution of managed care...
Salon.com November 30, 1999 David McGuire	How to kill HMO reform The lawyers who brought down Big Tobacco have now set their sights on HMOs, but what's wrong with this picture?
Managed Care January 2001 Michael Levin-Epstein	Clinton's Regulations May Be Model For Patient-Rights Legislative Push That handiwork might just provide a preview of the type of patient-rights legislation a sharply divided Congress might produce...
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Managed Care March 2001 Bob Carlson	State Experiences Suggests Thompson, Bush a Tough Team People who know George W. Bush and Tommy Thompson best predict that between them, these former governors will get a patients-rights bill through Congress and make the federal health care bureaucracy work better...
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Salon.com December 16, 2000 Anthony York	Will Republicans be Bush's worst enemies? From John McCain to Tom DeLay, members of his own party could make the most trouble for the president-elect...
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Managed Care September 1999	Bipartisan Bill Gains Momentum, Worries Industry Congress this month will take up a bipartisan managed care reform bill, perhaps the first this year to truly worry the insurance lobby....
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Managed Care December 2003 John A. Marcille	Will a Gift From Congress Rebuild Public Confidence? Medicare reform is another way of digging out from under the PR muck. Make it work, make it better than it was before and even the industry's harshest critics will have to admit that managed care does good while it does well. Failure is not an option.
Salon.com August 2, 2001 Jake Tapper	Patients' rights double cross As Bush heralds a new "deal" on patients' rights, a key Republican coauthor in the House says he was never consulted...
InternetNews March 14, 2008	House OKs Spy Bill, Rejects Telco Immunity The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives defied President George W. Bush on Friday and passed an anti-terrorism spy bill that permits lawsuits against phone companies.
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Real Estate Portfolio Nov/Dec 2003 Matthew Bechard	Sen. Edward Kennedy on Partisanship, Preserving Pensions and the Value of REITs As the senior Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Senate, Kennedy is actively involved in shaping policy affecting education, health care and pension plans -- an issue of particular importance to the REIT industry. An interview.
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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.
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Managed Care August 2002 Maureen Glabman	Lobbyists That the Founders Just Never Dreamed of The "right ... to petition the government" has come a long way in over 200 years, and health care organizations are not shy in exercising it.
Managed Care February 2001 Michael Levin-Epstein	Mainstream Media Misinterpret HCFA's Policy on Medical Errors Is the Health Care Financing Administration changing its policy on disclosure of medical errors to Medicare beneficiaries? The issue is causing a tremendous amount of confusion among physicians and health plans. To HCFA, however, the fuss is much ado about nothing...
InternetNews November 10, 2006 Roy Mark	Will Dems Change Tech Policy? One-party rule in Washington ends next year when the 110th Congress convenes with Democrats taking over the House and the Senate. What does this mean for technology policy?
Salon.com May 21, 2001 Jake Tapper	The Kennedy compromise Conservatives might be screaming the loudest, but Democrats made their share of concessions in the House and Senate education bills...
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BusinessWeek February 5, 2007 Richard S. Dunham	Health-Care Reform Is In The Air, But... Despite all the big talk and odd alliances, expect only small steps for now in health-care reform.
Managed Care June 2003 John Carroll	Howard Dean, MD, Sees Universal Coverage as a Realistic Goal The former Vermont governor at first greeted managed care with good will. Now, however, he thinks it is shortsighted in its dealing with doctors. Unlike President Bush, he wouldn't call on it to rescue Medicare.
Managed Care January 2007	Medicare's P4P Program Under Fire Before It Has Begun Just before adjourning last month, the outgoing Congress passed legislation that would set up a pay-for-performance program in Medicare.
Managed Care April 2007	Comparing Congressional Health Care Proposals A review of health care reform bills proposed by Congress shows that many of them would cover more uninsured Americans than the current administration proposal.
IndustryWeek March 1, 2003 John S. McClenahen	Order In The Torts Despite company plans to settle asbestos claims, business continues to seek federal civil-suit limits. The states, however, may have the final word.
AFP eWire November 8, 2004	Bush, Congress at Odds Over Charities? At his first press conference since being reelected, President Bush indicated that tax reform will be a priority in his second term and stated that tax incentives for charitable giving are very important and should not reduced.
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Knowledge@Wharton July 30, 2003	Restructuring Medicare Is a Riskier Operation than First Thought Hailed as a bipartisan success when passed in late June, two Medicare reform bills are losing some of their luster as they face closer scrutiny by a conference committee made up of members of both chambers charged with reconciling the legislation this fall.
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