`Senate's only doctor' prescribes profit motive ; Majority leader--and physician--Bill Frist makes no apologies for taking a private-sector approach to America's substantial health- care problems
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`Senate's only doctor' prescribes profit motive
; Majority leader--and physician--Bill Frist makes no apologies for
taking a private-sector approach to America's substantial health- care
problems Chicago
Tribune; Chicago, Ill.; Feb 23, 2003; Jill Zuckman,
Washington Bureau;
Abstract: PHOTOS 2
Senate leader [Bill Frist], who provided medical aid in Congo in 1998,
supports the free-market approach to health care. AP file photo by Ken
Isaacs. Frist on medical care. (Chicagoland edition, News section,
Page 1.) GRAPHIC: Who's backing Frist Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has
raised more than $2 million from doctors, health insurers, drug
corporations and others in the health- care ...
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