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5 - 9 - 02 How to Kill a Trade Bill: President Bush Says Daschle TAA Proposals "Threaten Passage of TPA"
4 - 30 - 02 Health Coverage for Displaced Workers: MSAs Guarantee Better & Broader Coverage than Democrats' "COBRA-Care"
2 - 4 - 02 The Craig-Torricelli Health Security Amendment: Expand Eligibility for Archer MSAs
2 - 4 - 02 The Craig-Torricelli Health Security Amendment: Five Reasons to Expand the MSA Option
1 - 30 - 02 Five Years Later. . . Archer MSAs Are a Resounding Success
6 - 25 - 01 Legislative Notice: S. 1052 -- The "Bipartisan Patient Protection Act" (McCain-Edwards-Kennedy)
6 - 25 - 01 The Ol' Bait-and-Switch: S. 1052 Pulls a Fast One on Employer Liability, Contract Sanctity, and Medical Review
6 - 22 - 01 Gramm-Hutchison PBOR Amendment: Texas Language Would Make Good on Dems' Promises to Protect Employers From Lawsuits
6 - 22 - 01 Sen. Edwards Talks Lawsuits on TV: Oops! He Did It Again
6 - 22 - 01 From the Congressional Record: Senator Gregg: McCain-Kennedy-Edwards (S. 1052) Would Violate Health Plan Contracts
6 - 22 - 01 From the Congressional Record: Senator Gregg on McCain-Kennedy-Edwards' "Go-Straight-to-Court" Loophole
6 - 22 - 01 From the Congressional Record: Senator Gregg: Claims that McCain-Edwards-Kennedy Caps Damages are Bogus
6 - 21 - 01 From the Congressional Record: Senator Gregg on S. 1052's Employer Liability Provisions
6 - 21 - 01 From the Congressional Record: Senator Gregg: McCain-Edwards-Kennedy Gives Trial Lawyers Two Bites At the Apple
6 - 21 - 01 From the Congressional Record: Senator Gregg: What Today's Patients' Rights Debate is Really About
6 - 20 - 01 In Their Own Words: Democrats' Goal Is Government-Run Health Care
6 - 20 - 01 Has Senator Edwards Read His Own Bill?
6 - 20 - 01 Cancelling Coverage May Cost Lives: McCain-Edwards-Kennedy Would Deny Diagnostic Tests to 14,000 Patients Daily
2 - 20 - 01 Amid Double-Digit Cost Increases. . . Half of Employers Say They Would Drop Employee Coverage If Exposed to Lawsuits
2 - 20 - 01 McCain-Kennedy Would Allow Lawsuits Against Employers and Cancel Coverage for One Million Americans

10 - 26 - 00

Highlights of the Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 2614, Enactment of Certain Small Business, Health, Tax, and Minimum Wage Provisions
10 - 3 - 00 Last Dance: (Bill) Clinton's Final Push for Government-Run Health Care
9 - 20 - 00 Even as Health Premiums Rise 10%, Democrats Still Demand a 4% Lawyer's Surcharge: You Call This "Patient Protection"?
9 - 20 - 00 Norwood-Dingell II: Dems Try to Scuttle Patients' Rights Conference by Offering Even More Lawsuits
9 - 18 - 00 In Their Own Words: Democrats' Goal Is Still Government-Run Health Care
7 - 27 - 00 He Keeps Going, and Going. . . Medicare Plan Makes Clinton the Energizer Bunny of Government-Run Health Care
6 - 22 - 00Legislative Notice: S. 2553 -- Departments of Labor, HHS, and Education and Related Agencies Apropriation Bill, FY 2001
6 - 8 - 00 539 Economists Agree: Price Controls Cause Patients to Suffer "Significant Harm to Health, Even Death"
5 - 19 - 00 Patients' Bill of Rights: GAO Report on 4-Year Old HIPAA Suggests HCFA Couldn't Manage Kennedy-Dingell
3 - 10 - 00 Canceling Coverage Cancels Care: Patients' Rights: The Stakes
3 - 2 - 00 Dingell-Norwood Would Increase Cancer Deaths
2 - 29 - 00 You Call This Patients' Rights? Adding Up the Casualties of Dingell-Norwood
2 - 10 - 00 Paying Off Trial Lawyers vs. Covering Families: Dingell-Norwood Would Cancel Coverage for 1.2 Million Americans (Cost Estimates Nationwide and for Selected States)
10 - 20 - 99 House, Senate Agree on Health Care Access Provisions
10 - 15 - 99 One-Fifth of Uninsured Have Access to -- But Decline -- Employer Coverage
10 - 15 - 99 House Republicans' Healthcare Access Bill Helps Millions, Taxation Committee Says
10 - 13 - 99 Editorial Reaction to Expanded Liability: Dingell-Norwood Leaves Health Care to the "Crapshoot of the Courts"
10 - 5 - 99 Uninsured Now Number 44.3 Million: Will the House Expand or Further Restrict Health Coverage?
10 - 5 - 99 9% FEHBP Premium Hike Confirms Senate Took the High Road on Patients' Rights
9 - 28 - 99 Summary of the "Patients' Bill of Rights Plus Act" as Passed by the U.S. Senate July 15, 1999
7 - 29 - 99 Clinton/Gore FDA Violated 1st Amendment: Court Restores Doctors' Free Speech Rights
7 - 20 - 99 Senate Approves MSAs for All Americans
7 - 13 - 99 The Kennedy Bill Would Lead to More Cancer Fatalities
7 - 9 - 99 CBO: The Kennedy Bill (S. 6) Is a $72 Billion Hidden Tax Increase
7 - 8 - 99 Canceling Coverage Protects Nobody: The Cost of "KennedyCare" (S. 6)
6 - 25 - 99 AMA Votes to Unionize Doctors: Now More Than Ever, Enact MSAs
6 - 24 - 99 It's About Access, Stupid: Cost Estimates of "KennedyCare"
6 - 24 - 99 The Health Care Access and Equity Act of 1999
6 - 23 - 99 Democrats Obstruct Ag Bill With Proposal to Cancel Health Coverage for 1.4 Million
6 - 22 - 99 RPC Talking Points: Republicans Protect Patients, Democrats Increase Health Care Costs
6 - 18 - 99 Their Ship Sinking, Democrats Throw Patients Overboard To Save Trial Lawyers
5 - 5 - 99 Forty-three Senators Urge Action this Year: Make MSAs Available to All Americans "Immediately"
4 - 29 - 99 CBO Re-Estimate Has Democrats Backpedaling
3 - 16 - 99 Republicans Champion Patients' Rights by Making Health Coverage Affordable
3 - 1 - 99 Talking Points on "Patients' Bill of Rights"
2 - 9 - 99 Key Provisions in S. 300, "Patients' Bill of Rights" Plus -- MSAs, FSAs, and Deductibility Deliver Greater Access and Real Patient Protection
Senate GOP Healthcare Task Force
9 - 10 - 98 Healthcare: The Difference is Access Official Estimates Show Huge Disparity Between GOP, Kennedy HMO Bills
7 - 31 - 98 Legislative Notice: S. 2330 -- Patients' Bill of Rights Act
7 - 31 - 98 The Costs of Kennedy-Care -- Employers and Employees Will Pay Billions More
7 - 30 - 98 Democrats Won't Take "Yes" for an Answer -- Minority Once Again Rejects Republican Offer to Consider Healthcare Bill
7 - 21 - 98 Patients' Rights: Republicans Target the Problem; Democrats Target the Politics
7 - 20 - 98 Republican Plan Gives Patients a Bill of Rights -- Democrats Give Lawyers the Right to Bill
7 - 15 - 98 GOP Healthcare Bill: The Right Prescription for Reform -- Patients' Rights Plus: Access, Quality, Confidentiality, and Research
7 - 15 - 98 Clinton-Care and Kennedy-Care: Deja Vu All Over Again -- Same Supporters, Same Goals, Same Principles
7 - 10 - 98 New York Leads the Way on Partner Notification Law, Why Won't Kennedy Follow? -- Kennedy Managed Care Bill Ought to Incorporate an AIDS Disclosure Provision in a "New York Minute"
7 - 8 - 98 The Kennedy-Daschle Bill: Healthcare Reform in Reverse Closing the Door on Many Americans Seeking -- or Seeking to Retain -- Insurance
6 - 16 - 98 Clinton Ignores His Own Commission in Pursuit of Healthcare Mandates -- GAO Underscores Folly of Legislating Excessive Healthcare Mandates
2 - 11 - 98 Clinton Once More Risks Medicare for Politics -- President's Medicare Expansion Plan: Dishonest, Disingenuous
1 - 30 - 98 If at First You Don't Succeed -- Spirit of 'Clinton-Care' is Tried and Tried Again in New Initiatives
1 - 9 - 98 Managed Day Care Makes Its Debut -- Clinton Pushes One-Sided Federal Child Care Initiative
9 - 24 - 97 GAO Releases First Study of So-Called "Gag Rules" -- Study Casts Doubt of Impact on Doctor-Patient Relationship
7 - 22 - 97 Costs Go Up, Access Goes Down: What's Wrong With this Picture? - First, Fix What's Wrong at FDA
7 - 22 - 97 Legislative Notice: S. 830 - Food and Drug Administration Modernization and Accountibility Act of 1997
6 - 10 - 97 Legislative Notice: S. 419 - Birth Defects Prevention Act of 1997
6 - 2 - 97 This Year's Budget Agreement Debunks Clinton's 1996 Charges - Daylight Shines on White House's 1996 "Medi-Scare" Ploy
5 - 16 - 97 States and Taxpayers Hurt By Proposed Federal Increase - Unforeseen Effects of the Much Touted Tobacco Tax
5 - 1 - 97 Lack of Health Insurance Due to Many Factors -- The Complex Problem of Insuring Uninsured Children
4 - 25 - 97 1997 Medicare Trustees' Report: The Crisis Continues
4 - 24 - 97 Talking Points on Today's Medicare Trustees' Report
4 - 16 - 97 Legislative Notice: H.R. 1003 - Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997
4 - 7 - 97 Clinton This Year Proposes Less Spending Than Congress DidLast Year -- Clinton'n Medicaid Budget "Cuts" More Than Congress's
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