[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 84 (Wednesday, June 24, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H5068]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     CONGRESS MUST PASS HMO REFORM

  (Mr. GEJDENSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEJDENSON. Mr. Speaker, one has to wonder what motivates Speaker 
Gingrich to continually stop movement on HMO reform.
  Today in the paper again a 52-year-old father of five suffers and 
waits to get a liver transplant, and it is not approved until he is too 
ill and too sick to get that transplant. My only brother's girlfriend 
died at 38 years of age as the HMO, the managed care system, delayed. 
Delayed testing, delayed X-rays, until it was too late.
  In Florida, the legislature took a step today. They started to 
provide patients some rights. This Congress has to get past the Speaker 
and the Republican leadership and fight for the life and breath of the 
American people to pass HMO reform.

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