Steven Holt: “Mr. Chairman, my wife is a general practice physician. It is kitchen…”

On the recordAugust 2, 2001

Mr. Chairman, my wife is a general practice physician. It is kitchen table conversation for us to talk about the change in recent years in the doctor-patient relationship and what has made it so difficult to practice medicine. Well, the Ganske-Dingell bill addresses that. This hurried bill, this amendment that was thrown together in the middle of the night last night, is no help. It is not a compromise. It puts HMOs in a unique privileged position in American law, and that is why the AMA, the New Jersey Medical Society, patients groups and individual doctors and patients all across America understand that we should go with the Dingell-Ganske approach to patient protection so that we can restore the doctor-patient relationship.

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Steven Holt

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the challenges in the doctor-patient relationship and opposing a specific healthcare amendment.

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Steven Holt: “Mr. Chairman, my wife is a general practice physician. It is kitchen table conversation for us to talk about the change…”

Editor's note · Context