NBC Nightly News - 1999-10-06 (partial)
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[0:00] All right, let me begin. [music]
[0:03] >> Critical condition. The huge healthc
[0:05] care battle tonight on Capitol Hill
[0:06] moves into high gear. You and your
[0:08] family versus your HMO.
[0:11] NBC News in depth. Crisis at [music] the
[0:13] top and bottom of the world. Avalanche
[0:16] at 20,000 ft. The world's best climber
[0:19] buried. And at the South Pole, a woman's
[0:22] medical emergency.
[0:24] Big man on campus. What is Jesse Ventura
[0:27] doing at Harvard tonight?
[0:30] And the home of the brave under fire. An
[0:33] angel who risked her life for others.
[0:36] The first woman to win a silver star.
[0:39] [music]
[0:41] >> From NBC News world headquarters in New
[0:44] York. This is NBC Nightly News with Tom
[0:47] Bro.
[0:49] >> Good evening. Healthc care in America is
[0:51] at a crossroads. Almost everyone is
[0:53] unhappy with some part of managed care
[0:56] and as a result it has become one of the
[0:58] primary issues for election year 2000.
[1:01] But how to fix it and at what cost?
[1:04] Tonight in Washington, the battle is
[1:06] fully engaged. The outcome is uncertain.
[1:09] The stakes are enormous. We begin with
[1:12] NBC's Lisa Myers on the big question.
[1:14] Patients rights. [snorts] With hundreds
[1:17] of millions of dollars and the health of
[1:18] American families at stake, tonight,
[1:20] partisan bickering appears to threaten
[1:22] House approval of new rights for 161
[1:25] million Americans in HMOs. The president
[1:28] accuses House Republicans of using
[1:31] poison pills to try to scuttle reform.
[1:34] Don't let this 11th hour gimmick kill
[1:37] two years of hard work for something the
[1:40] overwhelming majority of Americans of
[1:43] all political persuasions know we need
[1:45] to do.
[1:46] >> Republic