Letter: Patients’ rights is a misnomer

Tuesday, June 26, 2001 | 9:09 a.m.

Somebody, somewhere, please tell me how this patient's bill of obligations is good? (formerly known as patient's bill of rights before the Senate switched to Democratic control).

Everyone except the tort profession will be saddled with new obligations and restrictions. An inalienable right is a stand-alone principle nondependent on government action. Human rights that are dependent on government action are obligations.

Not only do the lawyers escape any new obligation or accountability to the country, they are given assistance in prep work for documents (which is a subsidy for lawyers).

In addition to destroying the world's greatest health care development and delivery system in the world it will change employee compensation computation.

FRANKLIN M. TAYLOR

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