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Among the provisions: patients needn't go through their HMOs to see their dermatologists; HMOs cannot forbid doctors to tell patients about expensive treatments available; and patients can protest to an outside board a plan's refusal to pay for a procedure.
If someone being electrocuted in the chair, God forbid, happens to get burned or suffer a nosebleed, so be it.
Most publications forbid journalists from making campaign contributions, certainly to people they're writing about.
Did he have to settle for UCLA, Santa Cruz or, God forbid, one of the Cal State campuses?
What if our economy doesn't grow at the rate of South Korea's, or even 2 percent a year, but stagnates, or, God forbid, goes down despite all the cutting of taxes and trees, and racking up of deficits?