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UNNEEDED PATIENTS' RIGHTS BILL.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)
The beat goes on for a patients' bill of rights as the White House and Congress dicker over details. Why bother? The public's desire for it is suspect, especially since health consumers' voices have already been heard.
The supporters of a patients' bill like to cite polls that show widespread backing. Gallup, for instance, in a mid-July poll found that seven in 10 Americans thought Congress should pass such a bill.
The poll also found a deep void of knowledge about the issue. For instance, when asked to describe what the bill would entail, just 12% said it would give patients the right to sue health care providers.
"Most of the responses," explained Gallup, "focused on general "rights' of patients, as well as their right to choose their own doctor and hospital, their guarantee of health care, and protection of patients' confidentiality -- none of which are the specific purposes of the legislation currently being considered."
When told that the right to sue health plans could mean higher premiums, less than half the public backed a rights bill, notes a September 2000 Gallup ...
- Senate panel gives OK to `patients' rights' bill; Health plans and business...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) DeFiebre, Conrad March 10, 1999 700+ words
A "patients' rights" bill proposed by Attorney General...committee, despite warnings from health plans and business groups that...higher burden of proof for health plans to deny coverage for treatments...the Minnesota Council of Health Plans. "It would prohibit anything...
- Georgia Congressman Revives Patients' Rights Bill.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News March 9, 2003 700+ words
...industry acknowledges that it has little concern any longer about a patients' rights bill. Karen Ignani, president of the American Association of Health Plans, said one reason for the change is that insurers give patients more choices about...
- Counterplan.(patients' right to sue health plans)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Modern Physician ISENSTEIN, HOWARD May 1, 2001 700+ words
...challenges patient rights bill with ad campaign...Association of Health Plans has launched...shouldn't the health plans (be)?" The...favors making health plans liable and dealing...the key patient rights bill, although a...
- Health Insurers Praise Rights' Bill Vote.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition FISHER, MARY JANE June 19, 2000 700+ words
...expose employers, insurers and health plans to the crushing costs of expanded...who co-authored the patient rights bill with Rep. John Dingell, D...of the American Association of Health Plans, accused the Senate of politicizing...
- House Passes Bush-Favored Patients' Rights Bill.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Best's Review Kelly, Dennis September 1, 2001 700+ words
...passed a patients' rights bill Aug. 2 that included...Association of Health Plans, said that although...adds association health plans to the bill and...passed patients' rights bill. Norwood's original...any patients' rights bill would have to ...
- Patients' Rights Bill Worries New Jersey Lawmakers, Advocates.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News August 4, 2001 700+ words
...passed a patients' rights bill, New Jersey lawmakers...Jersey's patients' rights bill, which went into effect...federally regulated health plans? Democrats and some...no federal patients' rights bill than with the one approved...
- Likely tax changes in patients' rights bill.
- Newspaper article from: The Kiplinger Tax Letter August 31, 2001 700+ words
...tax changes are likely to slip into a patients' rights bill. Right now, odds are that House-Senate negotiators...compromise. An incentive for smalls to adopt new health plans...a tax credit. And letting self-employeds...
- THE WHITE HOUSE: Pres announces regulation to bring Medicaid into compliance...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire September 18, 1998 700+ words
...pass a strong Patients' Rights Bill this year Today, in a speech...of rights for all federal health plans -- will provide critical...address grievances with their health plans. HIGHLIGHTED THE EXECUTIVE...MILLIONS OF AMERICANS IN FEDERAL HEALTH PLANS. The Medicaid ...
