Xavier Becerra: “I do not understand why, if that is what doctors rely upon as they continue their career and their practice to try to…”

“I do not understand why, if that is what doctors rely upon as they continue their career and their practice to try to heal and help, why we all of a sudden have to go against all those good physicians, all those good health care providers who are saying, please, do no harm to the Patients' Bill of Rights that we had, the same bill that last year got some 270 votes from the same Chamber. Why did we have to go into the back room and do this harm through these damaging three amendments that we have here before us? Why is it that we have to strip the accountability from the bill that would make sure that HMOs and insurance plans provide what patients want, the accountability. If you do harm to them, they have the right to go after you to get a remedy. Why is it that we strip away from those patients who are injured or perhaps even killed the ability to go after those who committed malpractice? Why? This is our chance to tell the American public that we believe, just as doctors do, that we should do no harm.”