"It is easy to agree to grant patients the right to get something they already receive, and that is exactly what, for the most part, both versions of the bill have done. The real fight ... has to do with a very small but significant gap between the two versions. It has to do with how HMOs will be sued in America in tort ... the effect of ERISA has been to cut off the right of employees who receive health insurance through their employers to sue their HMOs in tort."  MORE >>