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House rejects transplant bill
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WASHINGTON — Weighing into a bitter battle, the House voted yesterday to kill a Clinton administration effort to move more hearts, livers and kidneys to the sickest transplant patients.
The legislation would strip the Department of Health and Human Services of its power to set transplant policy, and it comes after years of tension between HHS and the United Network for Organ Sharing, the private firm that has long run the transplant system under a government contract.
The House approved the measure, 275-147. It also agreed to an amendment that specifically kills controversial HHS regulations directing more organs to the sickest patients — even if they live far from the donor.
President Clinton has threatened to veto the bill, which sides with the transplant network on virtually every point of dispute.
The legislation also encourages organ donation, something all sides support. It calls for financial assistance for living donors who give away a kidney or part of a liver and grants for states to donate donation.
Only about half of families asked to donate organs say yes, and many families are never asked. Meanwhile, nearly 5,000 people die each year waiting for organ transplants, and 68,530 people are waiting for transplants today.
The legislation would give the transplant network total control on the rules governing how to distribute the more than 20,000 organs that are donated each year. Under the network's system, patients who live in the same area as donors have first chance at organs, even if a sicker patient lives just out-
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side the border. The Clinton administration wants to eliminate those geographic barriers, saying someone's chance at life should not be dictated by where they live.
"Healthy people are getting organs before they need them, and the very sick are not getting organs before they die," said Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich.
The transplant network and many transplant centers fear that change will siphon away locally donated organs to other centers, jeopardizing their programs.
Supporters of the system also argue that states would have little incentive to encourage organ donation if the organs were being shipped to other states.
Microsoft's fate yet to be determined
Judge considers possible penalties
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The judge overseeing Microsoft's antitrust case must now decide what punishment to mete out: Slice the software giant into Baby Bills? Impose a hefty fine? Force Microsoft to reveal its secret software code to rivals?
U. S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson will spend the next few months trying to determine the best way to craft a remedy that won't hamper the company's ability to innovate in an industry changing at warp speed.
consideration recommendations from Microsoft, the Justice Department and 19 states involved in the case.
Unlike the judge's ruling Monday — a sweeping verdict that handed the government a powerful but anticipated victory after nearly two years of legal wrangling — the punishment Jackson will dispense is uncertain. He will hold hearings to explore the options, taking into
"The dilemma for the judge and
for the Justice Department is how to make the remedy effective without making it overly regulatory," said Warren Grimes, an antitrust expert who teaches law at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles.
Joel Klein, who heads the Justice Department's antitrust division, offered few hints at what remedy the government would seek, other than one that would protect consumers, innovation and competition by putting an end to
Gates: Must prepare company for court's punishment
Microsoft's widespread and persistent abuse of its monopoly power, and to rectifying its unlawful attempt to monopolize the Internet browser market.
The options before Jackson range from breaking up the company that made founder Bill Gates a billionaire to ordering Microsoft to change its business tactics.
Among the milder options: prohibiting Microsoft from using price as a way to punish clients who deal with competitors and forcing the company to relinquish control of the first screen most people see when they turn on their computers. Microsoft also could be ordered to license, if not completely surrender, the lucrative blueprint, the so-called source code, for its Windows software.
While the government reportedly dropped its pursuit of a company breakup during recent settlement attempts, Jackson's ruling may have emboldened Justice attorneys to ask for the toughest penalty possible.
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