2. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, established in 1943 for the preservation of the private relationship between patients and physicians, maintains an extensive WebSite at: http://www.aapsonline.org/ that features a monthly newsletter, congressional testimony and documents, legal reviews, and guest speakers.

3. Dr. Jane M.Orient, a specialist in Internal Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, is Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and maintains a
WebSite at: http://www.primenet.com/~jorient/ describing her new book "Your Doctor
Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism About National Health Care", published by Crown Books. Also present on this WebSite at: http://www.primenet.com/~jorient/title4.txt is
the complete text of Title 4--Medicare, Medicaid and Children's Health Provisions of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.

4. The Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Health Care was founded on July 7, 1997 in Boston under the chairmanship of Bernard Lown, M.D. of Harvard University. It has organized demonstrations against the sale of non-profit hospitals to for-profit corporations, and maintains a WebSite at: http://www.defendhealthcare.org

5. The American Medical Association was founded in Philadelphia in 1847 to strengthen the efforts of all American physicians and surgeons to serve their patients in a compassionate manner with the latest proven scientific tools. Its many meetings, its informed debates, and its weekly journal JAMA are all available at its website at: http://www.ama-assn.org/ .

6. The American Medical News is the weekly newspaper of the AMA since 1969, and serves as an indispensible source of the latest information in the battles of patients and their physicians against the new tyrannies of managed care, rationed care, and government care at: http://www.ama-assn.org/public/journals/amnews .