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Charles Marwick

JAMA. 2000;283:2918-2921.

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Washington—When the Clinton administration took office, health care reform was a major item on its front burner. Today, as the administration is preparing to leave, health care is still one of its principal concerns. At a breakfast talk to the National Health Council, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Donna Shalala outlined a number of legislative and policy moves that she said her office will try to complete during the next 5 months. They include the following:

• Patients' rights: The legislation that defines patients' rights is currently stalled in Congress, with no agreement to bridge the two widely differing versions passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives. "We need to get to it. We don't want to leave it sitting there for the next administration. There will be a big push to see if we can get agreement," Shalala said.
  
• Medicare . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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