[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13982]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                      SUPPORT MANAGED CARE REFORM

  (Mrs. JONES of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. JONES of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, last week, our children and families 
were denied protection from guns. This week, and for 2 years, we have 
been denied protection from managed care. We have been denied a 
patients' bill of rights.
  I promised the people of the 11th Congressional District of Ohio that 
when I got to Congress, I would work for a patients' bill of rights and 
campaign finance reform.

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  I am chagrined, however, that I have not had the opportunity to 
debate these two issues. This is the second discharge petition I have 
had to sign. Over 122 million Americans are not insured with 
enforceable patient protections without a Federal Patients' Bill of 
Rights. Over 5,960,000 persons in Ohio alone are denied that 
protection.
  I rise with my colleagues, my Democratic colleagues, to sign this 
discharge petition seeking a debate on a Patients' Bill of Rights that 
will allow patients access to needed care, allow them to have doctors 
make a determination with regard to their health care, and provide 
patients the opportunity to appeal.

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