08/10/1993
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"Congress should come together to pass this long overdue legislation."
"Today I am pleased to announce that the Labor Department is issuing final regulations requiring private health plans covering 130 million Americans to provide a fast and fair internal appeals process ..."
"Under this new rule, for the first time, health plans would be required to make coverage decisions quickly— within 72 hours for urgent requests—and to provide consumers with meaningful information on ..."
"But the only way to give every American in every health plan the right to see a specialist, to go to the nearest emergency room—not the cheapest—and to hold health care plans accountable when they cau..."