[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 6 (Wednesday, February 4, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H245]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, today our Republican friends are talking 
about naming airports. What America should really be concerned about is 
the ``NAMing'' of our airports. That is right, NAM, the National 
Association of Manufacturers, is having a corporate fly-in today.
  The corporate jets line the runways out at the airport here in 
Washington, and the special interests fill this Capitol. And what is it 
all about? They are heeding the cry of the Republican Party to come to 
Washington and block a consumer bill of rights for health care 
consumers who are enrolled in managed care: the right to see your own 
doctor, the right to be able to go to the emergency room without having 
to ask someone's permission, the right to hold accountable some 
insurance plan that denies you access to health care, the right of all 
Americans to begin to do what Texans can already do, and that is to 
hold accountable these managed health care plans.
  But NAM and the Republican Party, they have the NAM slam of this 
plan. It is really a NAM scam. It is a scam to deny the American people 
the rights they should have as health care consumers.

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