The Upcoming Conference on the Patients' Bill of Rights: WillCongress Resort to Another Double Standard in Health Care Policy?

This fall, taxpayers will be treated to another civics lesson whenHouse and Senate conferees begin to iron out their marginaldifferences over very similar versions of the patients' bill ofrights legislation. The Nickles amendment is the big exception. Onthe basis of sound experience, taxpayers should pay very closeattention not to what Members of Congress say, but rather to whatMembers of Congress do.

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