21.   Consumers and lawmakers of both parties are clamoring for federal standards to protect patients.

22.   Democrats are concerned about protecting patients.

23.   Did naproxen protect patients from heart attacks?

24.   For instance, there was considerable harmony last year over the idea that new regulations should be enacted to protect patients in their dealings with health insurance companies.

25.   Further, Norwood said that he would change the House bill to preserve existing state laws protecting patients.

26.   If that occurred and the patient were not protected by antiviral drugs, the AIDS virus could quickly start multiplying.

27.   Instead, they say, a stronger appeals process would protect patients without resorting to costly litigation.

28.   Just about everyone on Capitol Hill professes interest in producing legislation that protects patients from unfair health insurance practices.

29.   Key senators of both parties said Tuesday that a new government agency is needed to protect patients who volunteer to participate in experimental medical studies.

30.   Like caste untouchables, AIDS patients are supposedly protected from discrimination by laws, but statutes have counted for little.