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Lynn C. Woolsey: “Yesterday, late in the evening, one of the authors of the bipartisan patients' bill of rights, a bill that the majority…”

On the recordAugust 2, 2001
Yesterday, late in the evening, one of the authors of the bipartisan patients' bill of rights, a bill that the majority of the House of Representatives supports and the President does not support, the author of that legislation turned the good bill, under the pressure of the White House, into a patients' bill of wrongs. Today, we will be voting on the President's idea of an insurance bill of rights, a bill that will kill the bill in the first place by putting impossible roadblocks in the way of patients getting effective care in a timely manner. This patients' bill of wrongs would also roll back protections already provided by States right here in this country today. Do not vote for the patients' bill of wrongs.
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Lynn C. Woolsey
California
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Opposing the President's insurance bill of rights during a House floor debate.

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