12/2/99: How to kill HMO reform (Salon.com). Excerpt:The last thing that congressional defenders of the Patients' Bill of Rights wanted to hear, as they battled their way to a decisive victory in the House of Representatives earlier this year, was that the same pinstriped gang that successfully sued Big Tobacco was gearing up to mount an offensive against the managed-care industry. Some proponents of the managed-care reform bill now fear that the highly publicized legal attack could derail the legislation on its way to the president.
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