<p class="source">Scripps Howard News Service</p>
<p>Even so, critics count on the power of patients'-rights advocates like Dana Christensen to make their case. The Playa del Rey, Calif., widow told senators how her husband, Doug, begged on his deathbed for a divorce because their Association Health Plan, including its chemotherapy rider, amounted to "junk" insurance that covered only18 percent of his treatment for bone cancer and saddled her with more than $450,000 of his medical bills.</p>