[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 15 (Wednesday, February 25, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H582]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          MANAGED CARE REFORM

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Madam Speaker, the Republican leadership continues its 
efforts to try to kill managed care reform. Just yesterday the Speaker, 
the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Newt Gingrich), attacked a reform 
proposal put forward by some of the members of his own Republican 
Party.
  Let there be no mistake, the Republicans do not want to bring up 
managed care reform. They are aligned with the special interests, who 
are spending a million dollars to kill managed care reform because they 
know what tremendous support the issue has with the American people.
  Meanwhile, the Democrats are moving forward to push legislation that 
provides Americans a choice of doctors, access to specialists, 
emergency care, and length of stay in a hospital that is determined by 
the patient and his or her physician, and not the insurance company.
  President Clinton issued an executive order last week that will 
extend patient protections to Federal health insurance programs. The 
Democrats are determined to move ahead with managed care reform.

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