[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 6 (Wednesday, February 4, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H245-H246]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          MANAGED CARE REFORM

  (Mr. WYNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WYNN. Mr. Speaker, today the American people will get an 
opportunity to see the spectacle of the dreaded special interest 
groups. That is right. The National Association of Manufacturers have 
flown into town to oppose managed care reform.
  Congress has in the works the Patient Access to Responsible Care Act, 
a bipartisan bill, Democrats and Republicans working together to 
protect patients rights. The President refers to it as a patients' bill 
of rights. It would guarantee access to emergency rooms, access to 
specialists. It would make the decisions or put the decisions in the 
hands of doctors, not medical insurers or bureaucrats or medicrats. It 
would guarantee that the American people

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have the kind of access to health care that they deserve.
  But the special interests are in town, and they are here to try to 
scare Americans, to try to convince Americans that if you have a health 
care bill of rights, you will lose your health insurance, that 
employers will not be able to offer health insurance to their 
employees. My colleague says it is a scam. I think he is right. We need 
to stand up to the dreaded special interest groups.

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