Talk:U.S. Patients' Bill of Rights

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In my opinion this article is very non-NPOV. "The recent passage of the McCain-Edwards-Kennedy Patients' Bill of Rights was a critical step in the path to providing comprehensive protections to all Americans in health plans..." and "...only the Senate-passed measure would provide patients with adequate means to enforce their rights..." (emphasis mine) are both highly debatable statements; many, many Americans would disagree that either version has teeth. TBH it sounds like a press release.

I have also just tried to locate further information on this subject, and except for the Senate Democrats' site that is linked to, I am unable to do so. The Library of Congress' Thomas search, for finding bills from the House of Representatives and the Senate, turns up nothing, even when just searching for bills sponsered by the three Senators listed on the Democrat's site (John McCain, Edward Kennedy, and John Edwards). Can you please provide some sort of reference that anything ever actually passed? There has been much debate but nothing has ever passed as far as I am aware.

As far as I can tell, this is about a Senate Bill that was never enacted into law, specifically "S1052". See [1]. It's been held at the desk since 11/19/2002. Lots of things get called "Patients' Bill of Rights", but I'm not sure there's any U.S. legislation with that actual title - which if true surely should be reflected in the article??? There are at present some 92 bills on the subject of patients' rights being considered in Congress: most will never become law. - Nunh-huh 06:13, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)