NBC Nightly News - 1999-10-07
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[0:01] condition, your healthcare,
[0:04] the latest on the massive tugofwar over
[0:07] HMOs.
[0:09] One of the most popular diet drugs ever
[0:11] and one of the biggest legal settlements
[0:13] ever. Billions of dollars for fenfen
[0:16] users in depth tonight. Missing the
[0:19] mystery of what
[0:22] we should know about the odds of finding
[0:24] missing children. Cruise control.
[0:27] Vacations at sea, more popular than
[0:29] ever, but also some big disasters. Now,
[0:32] new ideas for making it safer. [music]
[0:37] >> From NBC News World Headquarters in New
[0:40] York, this is NBC Nightly News with Tom
[0:44] Bro.
[0:46] Good evening. Major healthc care
[0:48] developments tonight on patients rights
[0:50] and a controversial diet drug. First,
[0:52] patients rights. The big battle in
[0:54] Congress and tonight, a giant step
[0:56] toward changing how patients can deal
[0:58] with their HMOs. A major defeat for the
[1:01] Republican leadership. As NBC's Lisa
[1:04] Myers reports, still has a way to go.
[1:06] But tonight, the Clinton administration
[1:08] is in the driver's seat.
[1:11] >> After a brutal two-year battle, members
[1:13] of Congress had to pass packs of
[1:15] lobbyists.
[1:16] >> How are you? I just we missed each other
[1:18] yesterday. on all sides of the issue
[1:21] just to cast their votes.
[1:23] >> The yays are 275, the naysay are 151.
[1:26] The bill is passed.
[1:27] >> In the end, the vote to give broad new
[1:29] rights to 161 million Americans in HMOs
[1:33] was not even close. Key to the victory,
[1:36] 68 renegade Republicans who bucked their
[1:38] own party leadership. Their leader,
[1:40] Charlie Norwood, a dentist. Today it's
[1:43] about that mother today who took her
[1:45] child to the pediatrician and the doctor
[1:48] says you