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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: puborectalis who wrote (154823)6/22/2001 12:02:07 AM
From: ColtonGang  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
This is why his job ratings have hit rockbottom........Bush Demands Senate Changes on Patient Bill

By ROBERT PEAR and ROBIN TONER





ASHINGTON, June 21 — President Bush threatened today to veto the patients' rights bill now on the Senate floor. Democrats vowed to forge ahead with the legislation and accused Mr. Bush of standing with the health insurance industry against the American public.

In a sign of the shifting political winds, the speaker of the House, J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois, said Mr. Bush might eventually have to accept a bill that went further than he wanted in allowing patients to sue health maintenance organizations for denial of care.

Democrats said they were confident that public opinion was on their side, and they showed no inclination to make concessions to Mr. Bush in the light of his veto threat.

By a vote of 52 to 45, Democrats today beat back the first major challenge to their bill, a Republican amendment that would have increased the tax deduction for health insurance costs of the self-employed. The vote involved questions of Senate procedure and constitutional law, rather than health policy. But it was an important test of strength for Democrats and for the new Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle, Democrat of South Dakota.
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