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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (110735)	6/29/2001 10:29:12 AM
From: Charles P. Hubbard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

We already have twice as many lawyers as we do doctors in this country. The patients bill of rights will give us more lawyers and less doctors. Coincidence that our law makers are mostly lawyers? -ng-

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (110735)	6/29/2001 12:52:11 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 436258

I'm hearing a lot of rumblings about immediate premium increases (to reserve for legal expenses for the insuranc companies) and dropped coverage if/when it passes I never know how much to discount this stuff since it's the HMOs' standard reaction to any proposed regulation whatsoever. They said the same in the debate on the Texas Patient's Bill of Rights (you remember, the one GWB vetoed, then claimed to have supported), and it has produced only a handful of lawsuits and no major difference in premiums as far as I can see.