Political Quotes

“this bill was supposed to be about financial services, but it actually contains the most severe invasion of Americans' right to medical privacy ever considered by the Congress. As the L.A. Times wrote in an editorial today, ``not a shred of protections are left. Health insurers can peddle patients' privacy with little or no restraint.'' Under this bill, health insurers can sell genetic records to credit bureaus, life insurance companies, without the consent or even the knowledge of the patient. I have a high regard for the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Ganske). I do not think he realizes what he has opened the door to in terms of the invasion of medical privacy. That is a different issue than privacy of financial records. But this medical privacy provision allows information to be made available and to be sold without us ever knowing about it, about our most intimate medical problems. I would rather have nothing on medical privacy than a provision which takes us a big step backwards.”