one has to wonder what motivates Speaker Gingrich to continually stop movement on HMO reform. Today in the paper again a 52-year-old father of five suffers and waits to get a liver transplant, and it is not approved until he is too ill and too sick to get that transplant. My only brother's girlfriend died at 38 years of age as the HMO, the managed care system, delayed. Delayed testing, delayed X-rays, until it was too late. In Florida, the legislature took a step today. They started to provide patients some rights. This Congress has to get past the Speaker and the Republican leadership and fight for the life and breath of the American people to pass HMO reform.
Sam Gejdenson: “one has to wonder what motivates Speaker Gingrich to continually stop movement on HMO reform. Today in the paper again a…”
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Addressing the need for HMO reform and criticizing Speaker Gingrich's opposition to it.
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