In September 2012 the Scottish government published the Charter of Patients Rights and Responsibilities.
But the BMA warned there was a balance to be struck between patients rights and clinical priorities.
Scott burst back on the scene last year when he started Conservatives For Patients Rights, a major funder of anti-ObamaCare advertising.
Just last month Frist led the charge for the White House on patients' rights legislation.
Many advocates for patients' rights, and some key commission officials, want to change this.
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Scott says he launched Conservatives for Patients' Rights so people could hear about an alternative to the likely Democratic plan.
The first minister insisted the forthcoming Patients' Rights Bill was in the public interest and patient groups had welcomed its proposals.
It makes much of a new "constitution" setting out patients' rights in effect recasting what the NHS is supposed to provide anyway.
Capuano supports "patients' rights" health care legislation and a single-payer system, although he concedes the latter is a tough sell in a Republican-led Congress.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will launch a 12-week consultation on the proposed changes to the constitution - the formal statement of patients' rights - on Monday.
The bill - which was backed unanimously - also provides for a charter of patients' rights and responsibilities within six months of the legislation coming into force.
On the other side, patients' rights organizations and advocacy groups such as the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) have urged the FDA not to hastily reclassify ECT devices.
McCain, who bucked President Bush in sponsoring campaign finance reform and patients' rights legislation the administration opposed, told his colleagues they are all on the same team and should be working together.
Instead of a Patients' Bill of Rights, how about a Patients' Declaration of Independence?
The first year the Texas Legislature passed a patients bill of rights, Bush vetoed it.
Tuesday night, he claimed he had brought Republicans and Democrats together to enact the Texas version of a patients bill of rights.
"We've got a lot of good battles we think we may be able to win: education, patients bill of rights, minimum wage, prescription drug benefits, " said Sen.
House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt, who supports Norwood's version of a Patients' Bill of Rights, said Democrats are also open to a compromise, but the Missourian said they would demand patients have broad access to state and federal courts.
We have 200 -- 200 plus medical and consumer groups are for the Patients' Bill of Rights.
But only Congress can enact the Patients' Bill of Rights for all Americans in all health plans.
Now, how does the Patients' Bill of Rights fit into all of this?
Politicians are ready to mandate that health maintenance organizations (HMOs) give patients more flexibility, the so-called patients' bill of rights.
And I want to just tell you that we actually now have some experience with the Patients' Bill of Rights.
The Philadelphia event was organized to kick off a 100-city and Internet petition drive in support of the patients' bill of rights.
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The process has been stalled by the Senate's high-profile consideration of the patients' bill of rights and the weeklong Independence Day break.
And the HMOs can live with President Bush's Patients' Bill of Rights.
He will again call for passage of a Patients' Bill of Rights.
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So it will be a give-and-take period not unlike what we saw last week in the debate over the patients' bill of rights.
"The difference is I can get it done, " Bush said directly to Gore as the two sparred over the possibility of a federal patients' bill of rights.
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