Bill of Rights, Bill of Goods?

An odd alliance of health care practitioners and the trial bar, plus the usual proponents of centralized government health care schemes, are filling up the air with talk of greedy managed-care health care plans. Their urgent prescription: a Patients' Bill of Rights (PBOR). By creating potentially company-wrecking new legal liability, the PBOR would lead employers to weigh dropping employee health plans; those that decide to stick it out would face significantly higher costs, at least some of which would likely be passed on to workers in the plan, in the form of higher co-payments and deductibles. The end result would obviously be fewer employees and families with health insurance, which would now cost them more.