I don't know if you were a Member of Congress at the time, but we all under this law would have the same policy that every American would have. We wouldn't have any different policy than the American public would have, and the question about rescission, and you're a prime candidate should you lose office, which you shouldn't, to be uninsurable if the Patient's Bill of Rights were repealed. Under the Patient's Bill of Rights, if you were to leave Congress, you could get an insurance policy because the pre-existing condition that you have, polio, and an operation resulting from the polio would go into play as a pre-existing condition, and you would not be able to get an insurance policy.
John Garamendi: “I don't know if you were a Member of Congress at the time, but we all under this law would have the same policy that…”
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Garamendi discusses the implications of the Patient's Bill of Rights on insurance coverage for former members of Congress.
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