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




                      CORPORATE SPECIAL INTERESTS

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, today the corporate special 
interests are responding to the call of the Republican leadership to 
get off their wallets. Today they start spending millions of dollars, 
with the National Association of Manufacturers fly-in, to kill the 
bipartisan effort to pass a patients' bill of rights to protect people 
against the excesses of managed care, to make sure that people know 
that doctors are making the medical decisions and not insurance 
companies, to make sure that patients have a right to appeal the denial 
of services, to make sure that people understand that these medical 
decisions are theirs and between them and their doctors.
  But, no, the Republican leadership in the House and the Senate have 
told the special interests lobby to come to Washington to spend 
millions of dollars to deny us the right to have a bill that has over 
220 cosponsors, Republicans and Democrats, who know that their 
constituents need these protections against managed care. We have got 
to respond to the need of our people, not to the corporate interests 
and their million-dollar campaign.

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