[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15621]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        PATIENTS' BILL OF WRONGS

  (Ms. WOOLSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, late in the evening, one of the 
authors of the bipartisan patients' bill of rights, a bill that the 
majority of the House of Representatives supports and the President 
does not support, the author of that legislation turned the good bill, 
under the pressure of the White House, into a patients' bill of wrongs.
  Today, we will be voting on the President's idea of an insurance bill 
of rights, a bill that will kill the bill in the first place by putting 
impossible roadblocks in the way of patients getting effective care in 
a timely manner. This patients' bill of wrongs would also roll back 
protections already provided by States right here in this country 
today.
  Do not vote for the patients' bill of wrongs.

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