[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 23103]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                       PREVENTING REAL HMO REFORM

  (Mrs. CHRISTENSEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CHRISTENSEN. Mr. Speaker, once again our friends in the majority 
continue to ignore the will of the majority of Americans who have 
spoken out in support of a real Patients' Bill of Rights. Instead of 
heeding this call, the majority has again drafted their own cynical 
health care bill in a last minute attempt to prevent the people's bill, 
the bipartisan Norwood-Dingell bill, from passing.
  The Republican health care bill unveiled yesterday is not real HMO 
reform, and do not believe for one second that it expands health care 
coverage for uninsured Americans.
  The Dingell-Norwood bill, by contrast, will put doctors and their 
patients back in charge of health care, increase access by making sure 
the insured can get the medical care they need, and makes managed care 
plans accountable when they decide to deny care.
  We must not let the opponents of the reform all our constituents 
asked for succeed. Support the Dingell-Norwood consensus managed care 
reform act.

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