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John Garamendi: “The one amendment I would propose is: don't do it, maintain the Patient's Bill of Rights, maintain these protections…”

On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
The one amendment I would propose is: don't do it, maintain the Patient's Bill of Rights, maintain these protections that we all need. There's not a person in this Nation that is not subject to the possibility of an incident that would become a reason for rescission. That's my experience. Eight years hammering the insurance industry, you have got to honor your contract. Yet because of the laws, they were able to wiggle out of an expensive incident.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California
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govinfo.gov
Jan 6, 2011

Editor's note · Context

Garamendi addresses the potential prohibition of amendments related to the Patient's Bill of Rights.

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