Patient Protection Victory Could be a Hollow One For the American Public-

'House Leadership Stacked the Deck Against Ultimate Passage'

"With the passage of patients' rights legislation in the House, the American public has won a great victory. Unfortunately, the victory may be a hollow one because the House Leadership has stacked the deck against ultimate passage.

"When the House Leadership tied patient protection legislation to controversial provisions that would harm people who need health care the most, it poisoned the bill. By forcing these two bills together, the House Leadership is giving the insurance industry exactly what it wants a patients' bill of rights that will never be enacted into law."

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