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Do you know how the outcome of his leadership effected the individuals ability to sue an HMO? What effect did he have on the patients bill of rights? On Medicare? Did he pull the teeth of the Patients Bill of Rights or beef it up? Was his leadership on Medicare good, bad, do we even know and how do we find out?

Hospital over charging of medicare has been a national disgrace and notorious as well, and no, it was not merely a few little bookkeeping mistakes, it was trumpeted by the press as major fraud that reached into the billions, as I remember. It wasn't that many years ago that it was major news, now we find one of the major players in that scandal rocketing up the political ladder and emerging as Senate Majority leader. To me that begs a few questions, I hope the answers are good, but this is D.C. we are talking about and the news out of there very rarely is good.

Most Republicans were against these measures. Dems inserted in the bill allowing lawsuits against HMOs the inclusion of employers. This would have driven more employers to drop health care benefits. This was a bill that would have benifited only the trial lawyers and those who want to nationalize health care.

Ditto the "Patients Bill of Rights". We have ONE Bill of Rights and that's all we need. We don't need more federal legislation; what we need is getting programs like Medicare AWAY from the Feds.

So if Frist was against these disasters, good for him!!!