^{Posted on July 2, 2001}

News Analysis: After Patients' Rights, Vast Needs and Higher Hurdles by Robin Toner

The New York Times
July 2, 2001

Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton University, on the patients' rights legislation:

"I think it was a ridiculous diversion of political energy that distracts from the truly shocking problems of the American health care system -- the uninsured, the elderly without drugs and the medical error problem."

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