President George W. Bush, bowing to Democratic pressure for new health insurance regulations, urged passage of a “patients’ bill of rights” as one of his top three priorities for July.

“The Congress must act on a patients’ bill of rights, a good patients’ bill of rights, one that recognizes patients are important, not lawyers,” Bush said, addressing a group of young volunteers in the White House Rose Garden.

“We’ve got the makings for a good bill,” Bush added.

But the White House said Bush remained opposed to legislation that passed the Democratic-controlled Senate in June despite a veto threat over provisions allowing patients to sue health maintenance organizations.

Supporters of the Senate measure in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives say they can pass a similar bill, but House leaders hoped to pass a measure backed by Bush with stricter limits on lawsuits.

With Americans favoring a patient protections bill by a ratio of 5-to-1 according to a Gallup poll released earlier this month, and Democratic leaders in the Senate making the legislation a top priority, Bush is eager to be seen as supporting some form of protection.

He was later to visit patients at a hospital in the Washington suburb of Fairfax, Virginia.

Outlining his other priorities for the month between Congress’s Independence Day break, which ends this week, and its summer recess in August, Bush also urged passage of education reforms and his proposal to provide government backing for social services provided by religious organizations.

“Those are the three items that the president thinks are on America’s front burner,” White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said.

Bush omitted from the list his proposed energy plan to stimulate domestic production and promote conservation and his call for “fast track” authority to negotiate expedited trade agreements, as aides said the other items had better prospects for quick passage.

“The three that he focused on today are the ones that are nearest passage…further down the process,” Bush aide Dan Bartlett said.

After Democrats took control of the Senate in June, party leaders vowed to make the healthcare legislation a top priority, along with an increase in the minimum wage and a prescription drug benefit under Medicare.

They pushed Bush’s aims to pass his energy plan, missile defense strategy and possible corporate tax breaks to the back burner.

But the White House spokesman described as “nonsense” charges that the president had lost control of the political agenda. “The president is doing very, very well, and his agenda is being very well received,” Fleischer said.

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