The package would allow consumers to appeal health-care decisions to an outside board.

The bill allows the sick to appoint proxies to make health-care decisions for them when they are no longer able to do so.

"The patient-doctor relationship has been destroyed by the interposition of a businessman trying to make health-care decisions."

Maybe worst of all, the Clinton plan gave the Federal Government a role in nearly every health-care decision currently made by you and your doctor.

As such, you would be empowered to make health-care decisions for your mother.

Would have allowed family members and friends to end life support for patients who can no longer make health-care decisions.

It requires that two doctors certify that a patient cannot make or communicate his own health-care decisions.

The book advocated moving health-care decisions closer to individuals and their families.

What's more, they had challenged the philosophy and the accuracy of cost-effectiveness analysis that ruled public health-care decisions at the highest level.

It has to sell itself to young women who are in charge of their own health-care decisions.