Patients' rights bill: Victim of struggling economy?

Worsening economic downturn has shifted focus to helping unemployed pay for health insuranceWashington-In early September, it appeared that advocates of a new patients'bill of rights would see success, and lobbyists for business and insuranceorganizations who opposed the initiative were willing to settle for thebest deal they could get.

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