[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12714]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        PATIENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS

  (Mr. BERRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BERRY. Mr. Speaker, here we go again. Once again, we are taking 
up the Patients' Bill of Rights in this House. We have already passed a 
good, a true, an honest Patients' Bill of Rights in the House of 
Representatives. We passed it in the 105th Congress; we passed it in 
the 106th. It was a bipartisan effort. Now we are going to be presented 
with a new Patients' Bill of Rights that they say is 80 percent like 
the real Patients' Bill of Rights, the Ganske-Dingell-Norwood-Berry 
bill.
  Mr. Speaker, it is amazing that we are going to try once again to 
fool the American people and trick them into believing that the 
insurance companies are not going to control their destiny when it 
comes to health care. The fact is, if we do not pass the Ganske-
Dingell-Norwood-Berry bill in this House, the American people will 
still be at the mercy of the insurance companies.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge the passage of the Ganske-Dingell-Norwood-Berry 
Patients' Bill of Rights.

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